I actually installed Boot Magic along with Partition Magic and I lost
access to my D Drive (NTFS), on the install. I called PQ and they
helped me straighten it out. They said not to install Boot Magic until
the Linux install was completed. This is one of the reasons I asked if
there were any more little surprises to expect.
I've read a tutorial about not installing LILO in the MBR, instead,
configure LILO and place it on the Linux Primary partition. But then it
said to add a line in the NT boot.ini file, (C:\BOOTSECT.LIN="Now Linux
is here")
and use dd to create a boot record image(# dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=512
count=1 of=/dosc/bootsect.lin), and boot from the NTLoader. Is this
what you are talking about?
Michael
eryl wrote:
>
> If you've installed boot magic and are booting the ntloader from it, it
> will be a piece of cake. Don't use DiskDrak to format your partitions
> though, use the existing formatted partitions you made with partition
> magic and just assign them / and /home and /swap, etc. and don't put
> lilo in the mbr. For some reason, a couple of times I had a problem
> with the partition table (as viewed from partition magic) if I formatted
> the already partition magic created ext2 partitions with DiskDrak. The
> installation worked fine and boot magic worked fine, but partition magic
> would no longer load. The last dozen or so times I've used the NT
> bootloader instead, it is a bit more difficult but eliminates the need
> for more software.
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Michael Lewis
Registered Linux User #197864
