Do NOT do this. NT NEEDS to have the OS loader on the MBR. If it's not
there, you re-install. Not that I am bitter. I have in the past
successfully added linux the the OS loader menu. Read the Linux-NT
howto (although I found the instructions somewhere else on the net) the
basic (vague, because I did this about a year ago) routine goes
something like:
Install Lilo on the superblock of the linux partition.
use cp with switches to copy the raw superblock to the NT drive as an
image file.
add the image file to the NT menu.
done!
D
Bill Kocik wrote:
>
> NT will unfortunately overwrite your master boot record (which is,
> I assume, where LILO is set up on your machine) without so much as
> even politely asking first. Make sure you have a Linux boot disk
> (the Red Hat install disk will work, as an example) and after the
> NT install, boot from this. I'm going to use the Red Hat boot disk
> as an example here, because I have no experience with other distro's
> disks. I'll also pretend that your Linux root partition ("/") is on
> /dev/hda1...you'll need to substitute your actual partition where
> "/" is.
>
> Put your disk in the drive, and commence the boot. When you get:
>
> boot:
>
> type in "linux root=/dev/hda1" (without the quotes, and substitute
> where your actual root partition is).
>
> When (if?) the system comes up, log in as root. Edit /etc/lilo.conf
> to include an entry for Windows NT (should be similar to your Win95
> entry...you ought to be able to figure out from what's already in
> the file what you need to add for WinNT), then run /sbin/lilo. Lilo
> should spit out something like:
>
> added linux *
> added windows
> added winnt
>
> Obviously, the labels (linux, windows, winnt) will be what you
> actually called them in /etc/lilo.conf, and the default (the one
> with the *) will be whatever you specified as default (by making
> it the first entry listed in /etc/lilo.conf), but you should get
> something similar to this. If anything's wrong, Lilo will say so
> and you'll need to fix your /etc/lilo.conf. If there are no errors,
> Lilo will re-write itself to your master boot record, and you should
> be all set.
>
> Bill Kocik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (answering from home today)
