Hello
This discussion is a little amazing to me because every day in my work I use LILO to
choose whether to boot
NT 4 Service Pack 5 or RedHat Linux 6.1. LILO works fine.
Regards,
Ron
Jaime Batiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Dear Jean-Louis,
>
> I'm not familiar with Windows NT's boot.ini file. this is what is looks like
> so far:
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> 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
>
> Given that windows is on the Master HDD in the primary IDE, and Linux is on
> the Master HDD on the secondary IDE, do you know what the entry should look
> like to include Linux?
>
> Just to be clear with what you are saying: do you then suggest that LILO
> should not be controlling the boot for the machine, and only the boot for
> Linux, so that I let windows NT handle the choice of OS at boot time?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jaime
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO
>
>
> > > Jaime Batiz wrote:
> > > >You should install LILO in the first sector of the root partition
> > > of Linux.
> > >
> > > So I specified hdc, for the bootloader.
> >
> > No, the root partition is hdc1, not hdc ...
> >
> > You must also alter your NT boot manager and add an entry for Linux,
> > pointing to the 1st partition on the "hdc" disk ... but I assume
> > that you already did this ...
> > You should NOT change anything in your BIOS ...
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 74 Annemasse France
> > old Linux fan
> >
>
>
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