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booting linux from NT bootmenu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Fri Oct 30 08:07:47 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:52:46 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
[snip]
>2. Use the NT boot loader to give you a Linux choice.
>I hear this works, but it requires some tricks. I never had to
>resort to it since methods 0 and 1 always worked fine for me.
>I think you install LILO in the boot block of the Linux
>root filesystem partition, and tell NT to boot DOS from there.
>There may be an additional step.
there is a mini howto on this. basically, when I did this I ended up
doing it pretty much by mistake. install LILO in the MBR, then took a
copy of it to disk. this 512(?) byte file gets copied to the NT partition
and referenced from boot.ini
mine looks like this:
[root@sundance /mnt]# cat boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version
4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version
4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
c:\linux.mbr="LILO"
--- those lines starting with multi(0) wrap around...
dave
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