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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:25:17 -0800 To: redhat-list@redhat.com From: Steve Scoggins <sscoggin@evergreen.com> Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com The following notes from installation of MS-DOS, RedHat Linux 4.0, and Windows NT may be of help to some of the RedHat mailing list. Send me any comments or corrections via email to: sscoggin@evergreen.com ------ How can I start MS-DOS, Windows NT 4.0, and Linux from a single Boot Menu? You can configure the Window NT boot loader to setup a menu allowing you to boot MS-DOS, Windows NT 4.0, or Linux. You can follow the setup procedure listed below to configure the Windows NT 4.0 boot loader. The procedures below are based on the use of two SCSI hard disks, where MS-DOS & Linux are installed on disk1 and Windows NT is installed on disk2. Note: You can also use IDE drives if you edit the device names to correspond to your version of Linux. 1. Using MS-DOS Version 6.XX FDISK utility, setup a single, active boot partition of 200 MB or larger for MS-DOS. 2. Reboot the computer and install MS-DOS on the partition created in step 1. (Drive C:) 3. Reboot when the MS-DOS install is completed and confirm you can cold boot the system to a MS-DOS prompt. 4. Using the MS-DOS setup floppy supplied by your CD-ROM manufacturer, install your CD-ROM drivers on Drive C: 5. Install Linux using one of the popular Linux distributions, such as the RedHat distribution. (I highly recommend that you use the Red Hat Linux release 4.0 official distribution, see the details at the following RedHat web site http://www.redhat.com/news/rhl-intel.html. The RedHat distribution is easy to install and includes a recent version of the Linux Kernel. The Linux Kernel includes a built-in SMB daemon supports peer-to-peer networking with other WFWG 3.X, Windows 95 or Windows NT based computers. 6. You should following the basic install process the RedHat official users manual, the setup will give you an opportunity to use the Linux FDISK to edit or create partitions. You should verify the proper partitions using the Linux FDISK p command which prints the partition information to the monitor screen. PARTITION DESCRIPTION SIZE DEVICE MOUNT FILESYSTEM LILO Type Partition 1 MS-DOS 200 MB /dev/sda1 /dosc MS-DOS FAT16 6 Partition 2 Linux (Root) 100 MB /dev/sda2 / Linux ext2fs 83 Partition 3 Linux (User) 600 MB /dev/sda3 /usr Linux ext2fs 83 Partition 4 Linux (Swap) 32 MB /dev/sda4 Linux ext2fs 81 Partition 5 Windows NT 600 MB /dev/sdb1 NTFS 7 7. The Linux distribution setup program will prompt you to choose the setup options for LILO. You should choose the option allowing you to write to the superblock Linux root partition to Partition 2 where Linux resides. Since, we are going to use the Windows NT boot loader menu so you should not choose to let the Linux setup write to /dev/sda. The LILO lilo.conf file (located in the /etc directory) is as listed below: compact boot=/dev/sda2 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=5 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/sda2 read-only other=/dev/sda1 label=dos table=/dev/sda 8. You Linux boot partition MBR is 512 bytes long. 9. Use the Linux "dd" utility to copy out the first 512 bytes of your Linux partition which has the booting information. Use the dd command syntax shown below: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Hint: You can also use the dd utility to copy the bootsector of your Windows NT bootdrive. You should also verify that you can bootup Linux from a bootdisk. Copy bootsect.lnx to your boot partition into the / directory. Add the following line to your boot.ini file C:\bootsect.lnx="RedHat Linux Version 3" The actual boot.ini file actually looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT40 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT40="Windows NT Server Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT40="Windows NT Server Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos C:\bootsect.lnx="RedHat Linux" C:\="MS-DOS" You should be able to boot your computer and select Linux from Windows NT's boot loader menu. After you select Linux from the boot loader menu press Enter to boot Linux on the /dev/sda2 partition. Many Linux users prefer to use the Windows NT boot-loader instead of LILO because Windows NT's boot-loader prompts you with a nice selection menu to boot from, and this method is supported by future versions of Windows NT. Steve Scoggins (Email: sscoggin@evergreen.com) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! ________________________________________________________________________ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
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