Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I just finished installing Mandrake 7.0 and LILO won't work. Here is the description 
>of the environment:
> 
> there are two HDD: the first one already had Windows NT working, so I added a second 
>HDD for Linux exclusively. The second HDD is the master device in the secondary IDE
> When the Installation asked me about LILO and where to put it, I consulted the HOWTO 
>document on installation and found that they recommend:
> >Windows NT is present on my computer
> >
IIRC, NT bootloader won't work (without some tweaking) with
LILO. Go take a look at www.mandrakeuser.org. I seem to
recall hearing that there was information there on how to
"hack" the NT boot loader to let you use LILO.
        John