Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. I also dual-boot to NT/Debian on the same hard drive and LILO seems to get the job done. Although I installed Debian first then NT. Just make sure you have the emergency and root disks handy in case something goes wrong. Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cyberspace Laoag, ISP
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Frank Hollmann wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Nikolai Lilo can be installed in the mbr, if you use a primary partition for ms-dos. After the Installation of msdos install linux or windows nt. In this special case, the nt-loader will be installed in the primary dos-partition. lilo can no be instructed to boot NT via the dos partition. i have on my pc linux , nt and dos and all seems to coexist with no problem i installed first dos on an eide partiton , then linux on a scsi disk (all for him that's better) and the rest of the eide disk ( on PMaster) is for winnt i use nt's boot manager and i installed lilo on the partiton boot record of the linux partiton ... then i add one line to boot.ini ( nt's boot manager ) c:\bootsect.lin=Linux which mean that the first 512 byte of my linux partiotn (or something like that ) are on c:\bootsect.lin then on linux i used dd in this meaning (assuming c: is /dosc ) dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dosc/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1 ^ my linux partiton i hope this would clear your porblem too samuele when a man lies he murders some part of the world these are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives all this i cannot bear to witness any longer cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? (cliff burton)
[Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. -thanks jeff
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. Check out Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. Also, you may wiant to get bootmenu package out of sunsite for alternative solution. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Nikolai
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Yes. I'm dual-booting NT and Linux. I'm using something called boopart. You use lilo to install a boot record on your root partion (not the mbr), and let bootpart create a chain loader for NT. I just did it this morning. Can't remember where I got bootpart from though. Dale
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
Hi, Nikolai == Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nikolai I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot Nikolai NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the Nikolai mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin Nikolai to get linux bootstraped. I dual boot Linux and NT4.0 using LILO. manoj -- I was charged on minestrone, and invincible. Vicki Brown, about AI programming. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
Bootpart is what I use to do this. The process goes: -install NT normally -install linux tell lilo to install itself on the boot block of the root partition( do not tell it to use the MRB, NT does not like this) Then read the documentation for Bootpart what you will do is tell it to read the boot block of the linux partition and it will make a file from it. The one that NT uses is the one called bootsect.dos(I think). Then you will reference the linux boot file from the boot.ini file and you are ready to go. Bootpart does most of the work for you once linux is installed. Hope this helps On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:47:57 -0500 From: Mrpeabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian? Resent-Date: 16 Oct 1998 18:43:32 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. -thanks jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Nikolai Lilo can be installed in the mbr, if you use a primary partition for ms-dos. After the Installation of msdos install linux or windows nt. In this special case, the nt-loader will be installed in the primary dos-partition. lilo can no be instructed to boot NT via the dos partition. for example: 10 MB DOS partition (primary partition, with dos-fdisk) 2 GB extended partition for NT (via NT installation process) 4 GB extended partition for linux (with linux fdisk, cfdisk etc.) hda1: msdos hda5: linux hda3: nt (nt was installed at last) some snippets of my lilo-conf boot=/dev/hda read-only image=/vmlinuz-2.1.125 root=/dev/hda5 label=Linux # other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda1 label=WinNT Hope it helps Frank Hollmann Rotbuchenstr. 26 81547 Munich / Germany E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (private) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (office -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
You don't need anything more than Lilo to do this. I tri-boot Win95, NT and Linux all without anything more than Lilo. With these three, the order that works the easiest is 1st Win95, then install NT, then Linux or if Linux is there already, boot it, edit lilo.conf, and then run lilo. If done in this order, you need only id one of the uSlop OS's, because the NT loader will find and have an entry for Win95. They both are booted from it in this case. Actually, on this same machine there is a second Linux (RH) but I boot it from floppy. Never have figured out how to do it right with Lilo when the root is not on the first disk, other than to put the kernel in /boot of whatever Linux IS on the 1st disk. I wasted alot of time trying to figure that out but soon tired of all the boot tries that failed! :) It was just easier to put the kernel in /boot than to struggle anymore trying to get it right. Either that, or put the root partition of both on that 1st disk. Used to be harder to get away with because of disk cyl limits, but thats not in the way these days. On systems with multiple disks, I like using them all, and therefore put the partitions all over the place...and I keep one disk on one IDE, and the 2nd on the other too, for any possible advantage performance wise. That being the case its easy enough to keep the root of all of them on the 1st disk too. Thats also why I keep the boot floppy handy just in case, and that floppy only bootable Linux is for emergencies more than anything else...and yes, its come in very handy more than once! Much easier to fix a system if you can boot a Linux up somehow; anyhow! ;) paul
