I have a pc I am trying to dual boot with NT and RH Linux 5.1. I was able to
install the NT on the primary partition and have it up and running on the
network. I have successfully installed the RH 5.1 from CDROM onto the system.
Now comes the tricky part which I have not been able to successfully complete.
In the MINI-HOWTO for LINUX-NT, the instructions state that I should "specify
the Linux-root-partition as the boot device." This doc proceeds to suggest that
it may work and it may not. I have gotten past that. The part that is
complicated is booting into Linux. NT is not very forgiving when messing with
the boot.ini and therefore one must be correct in the information that is passed
in the system. The WinNT partition is NTFS.
I need to be able to build a bootable LINUX floppy disk that will allow me to
boot to the second partition where Linux is so that I may retrieve the vmlinuz
(kernel) and place it on the first partition so that the boot.ini may access it.
The answer for instructions on building the Loadlin did not work for me.
I formatted a floppy disk (1.44) with fat16 and copied a vmlinuz off the
distribution cdrom that I used to install the Linux on this machine. When I
booted with the floppy in the drive, the result was:
Non-system diskette in drive,
Please replace with a bootable disk and press
Enter
Thanks.
John Gammon
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