Basicly, what I do is have Lilo write to the first sector of the partition
that I installed Linux to and then use either the Linux version of fdisk
or the DOS version to mark the partition as active. It's pretty easy to
add a stanza to the lilo.conf file to allow booting the DOS/Windows
partition. I had an NT box that came with a 4 gig drive divided into 2 2
gig partitions. Under NT's disk administrator I deleted the second
partition. During the Linux installation I setup up a Linux native
partition for most of the 2 gigs of free space and a small < 128 meg swap
partition. When the Linux distro asked me where to write the bootstrap
(Red Hat), I told it to install the bootstrap to the first sector of the
linux native partition. When the system rebooted, it came up in Windows
NT. I then used NT's disk administrator to mark the Linux partition as
"active". The next reboot gave me a Lilo prompt. Then adding NT to the
lilo.conf file completed the operation.
-Alex
P.S. The lilo.conf file on my laptop which dual-boots Win2k and Linux
looks like this:
boot = /dev/hda3
timeout = 50
linear
prompt
default = linux
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label = linux
root = /dev/hda3
append="mem=80M"
other = /dev/hda1
label = Win2k
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This shows another piece of my ignorance.
> If you load LILO in the boot record of the partition, does that mean
> that the MBR is left as the M$ MBR? In other words, does it only
> boot to the partition marked active? Or, can you still multi-boot?
> I always avoided this, because I couldn't find out what that option
> means.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > For a change, this isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux is actually the
> > mis-behaving OS in this case. LILO does something completely non-standard
> > and
> > goofy by installing special code in the boot record of the partition
> table.
> >
> > The MBR is supposed to load the boot record of the active primary
> partition,
> > *NOT* load an OS all by itself.
> >
> > I usually recommend installing LILO in the boot record of the boot
> > partition, which makes Linux a well-behaved OS again.
> >
>
>
> Bob Sparks
> Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.
> Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of
> information.
>
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