[Gllug] duel booting

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:14:12AM +0100, Lee Blackwell wrote:
> >           I do not think if this will be of any help or not but I have
> > had very little trouble dual booting Mandrake 7.1 and Windows95/98
> Incidentally, if you are trying to dual (duel) boot Linux with NT, I've
> found that you should install NT first, so that the NT boot loader is in
> the MBR.  Then install Linux and write LILO to the first sector of the
> boot partition.

It is possible to have Lilo load the NT boot loader, rather than the
other way round.  It's a neater solution because you don't have to
export the boot sector.  I did it by installing NT onto /dev/hda, then
moving that disk to /dev/hdb.  Then I put a new disk into /dev/hda and
installed Linux on it.  Finally, I put in a lilo option to boot from
/dev/hdb and had it do that drive-swap thing where the bios says hdb is
hda and vice versa.  It didn't fool NT itself - as soon as the NT kernel
loaded it realised it was on "D:" - but it did fool the NT boot loader
and that's all you need as NT will happily run fron D:

The only hassle was having to have a small DOS partition on /dev/hda -
because the NT boot loader insisted that page.sys had to be on what it
thought was C:

There may be a more elegant solution but I didn't care enough about NT
to look for it.

-- 
Bruce

The ice-caps are melting, tra-la-la-la.  All the world is drowning,
tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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