Quoting Pablo Manalastas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The persons I talked to who have successfully installed Linux > side by side with WinNT/2K/XP over NTFS gave me the impression that > it was NTloader that was doing the dual boot, and not Linux/Lilo/Grub/etc.
LILO/GRUB in the MBR branches 1. to NT OS Loader in the /dev/hda1 superblock, or 2. to a Linux kernel and root fs in /dev/hda2. If you ask an NT user to describe the resulting system, he'll typically tell you something confused and misleading, because such people have never heard of using the MBR as a branchpoint. > That is why I asked if RH8.0 now supports r/w on NTFS, since the > only way NTLoader can boot Linux is to supply it with the Linux-created > lilo/grub boot sector image as a file in the NT partition, implying > NTFS write support in the Linux kernel used during installation. If I understood the description properly, NT's OS Loader is used solely as a second-stage loader for the NT kernel, rather than to load Linux. (My understanding is that OS Loader is necessary for booting the NT kernel. It can't be eliminated entirely.) -- Cheers, "My file system's got no nodes!" Rick Moen "How does it shell?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
