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Re: LILO: Triple Boot Control?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Oct 28 15:49:07 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:29:10 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us, RedHat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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You can have a 3-way choice in LILO if each OS
starts from a separate partition. If you *hide*
Win95 during WinNT install, then WinNT will
start from its own partition instead of from the
Win95 partition.
Changing the partition type of the win95 partition
is not enough to hide it, you must also hide the
first few blocks of the partition. Here is one way
under Linux, assuming Win95 is in /dev/hda1:
# dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/hda1.magic count=100 bs=1k
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=100 bs=1k
Be sure to change the partition type from 6 to 83
before you install WinNT, or the bugger may
format it for you!
Unhide by restoring the 100 blocks and the original
partition type.
George Lenzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using RedHat Linux for about six months now. The love affair
> continues... But, I have some questions about LILO. Recently, I figured
> out how to get LILO to display a custom message at boot time. VERY cool!
> But, is it possible to get the message to display in color? (ANSI Control
> characters maybe???) The other question:
> I have a system at home set up to be a triple boot system.
> RH5.1/Win95/WINNT. Currently, I LILO offers me the choice to boot to Linux
> or "DOS". I have changed the labels to '1' for DOS and '2' for Linux. If
> you select '1' then you go to NT's Bootloader which give you the choices:
>
> Windows 95
> Windows NT Workstation 4.0
> Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (VGA)
>
> Is there any way to get LILO to present me with the selection of all thre
> OSes from the 'boot:' prompt? That way I can ditch the intermediate step of
> NT's boot loader? Does this require that I point LILO to specific sectors?
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> ***********************************************************************
> George H. Lenzer
> Technology Specialist glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us
> Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
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