"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: <SNIP> > > BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine. > > > That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT > partition was NTFS.. > > damir
I just today set my system up to do this - and my WinNT partition is indeed NTFS. What I did was make a linux boot floppy, install NT (onto a system that had had Debian on it for ages), boot linux, and then did: dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/ntmbr bs=512 count=1 This saved my NT MBR into a file, which I then reference in my lilo.conf, and then I re-ran lilo. For reference, here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=old read-only other=/boot/ntmbr label=WinNT table=/dev/hda This isn't ideal (lilo doesn't really start NT, but NT's boot menu), but it works. Now, as I've forgotten my NT password, I'm going to have to reinstall it (unless someone here knows the magical files to erase/modify so I can change my NT administrator password from Linux) so I'm going to get to go through this again...