> But, is LILO installed in MBR
> ie is the line
>
> boot=/dev/hda
>
> or is it
> boot=/dev/hdax (where x is the partition number)
>
> What I have found is: You need DOS MBR to bring up the NT bootloader (else
> NT hangs). But you can call NT bootloader from LILO installed on another
> active primary Linux native partition.
>
> If you have LILO on the MBR and LILO can call the NT bootloader which can
> boot NT without hanging, do tell me what you've done.
it is possible, we have done it and it does not need any different config,
other than
install winnt, then install lilo.
the hanging of nt is not because of lilo, but a bug in nt disk administrator
software,
it prompts to write a byte descriptor on each drive it finds, if you write
this on a lilo
drive, lilo will loose the nt's startup location, and lilo will fail, so
dont write the
byte descriptor, it will work.
there is no spec that nt requires a dos mbr, the mbr can be any thing, but
if you
need nt to boot, the osloader (nt's equivalent to lilo) should be residing
at the first
sector of the startable drive (not MBR) and lilo should be able to point
bios to here
to startup nt.
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