Funny, but I have never had this problem with NT/Linux dual booting on my
machine at work. AFAIK, NT doesn't use the MBR, as I have lilo in the MBR and
NT still boots as usual. If this is correct, then a fdisk/mbr is all you need
to do to correct your NT problem, but you still need to fix your linux system,
and without a boot disk...
Trevor
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Get your NT installation cd.
If it is NT 4, on another machine create > the three boot floppies for NT. Then
boot from those floppies, with NT in > the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you
want to repair a previous NT > installation. That is what you want to do.
>
> i've never done this. Good luck.
>
> wade
>
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joseph S Gardner wrote:
>
> > Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
> >
> > I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
> > I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> > 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
> >
> > Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I
> > selected my monitor (Magnvox 17" with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it
> > dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help
> > switch. The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on
> > it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on
> > the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that.
> >
> > I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain
> > is fried and don't know where to look. Any pointers?
> >
> > If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
> > works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
> > further than I already have.
> >
> >
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