My understanding is that there is a boot sector on each
partition, and a master boot record on each disk, so if the mbr is empty, the
machine boots from the active partition's boot sector. In my case, lilo is in
the mbr, and gives me the option of booting the NT loader in hda1's boot
sector, or linux from hda2. That's the way I always thought it worked, and it
is consistent with my experience, but I've never researched it, so if anyone
knows better, I'm open to correction.
Trevor
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000,
you wrote: >
> Trevor, if NT is not using MBR, then my question is how does the machine know how
> to go to NT loader when you do a single boot, without Linux, to your NT OS? And if
> you install Lilo to MBR, how are you getting back to boot into NT? Your thoughts on
> that would be very interesting......
>
> Craig
>
> Trevor Farrell wrote:
>
> > 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
> > (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
