I don't know how well it would work, but I used to use the nt bootloader to dual boot windows and linux. Maybe you could add just the nt boot stuff on a small partition and then have the nt bootloader send you over to lilo -- just a thought YMMV.
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:10, Marc wrote: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: > > it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard > > drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the > > gateway machine > > > > bascule > > > > > Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine > to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. > The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the > Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 > different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 > Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not > reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and > reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the > Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I > said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the > Gateway computer was able to recognize. > It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to > make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made > by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant > say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the > fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this > was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it > much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as > time passes we will hear more storys like this. > It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. > If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway > and, or Intel like a ton of bricks. > > Marc > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ____________________________________________________ > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ********************************************************************** * 59. Wonder what *this* command does? * * * * --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say * **********************************************************************
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