Boot to Linux from NT; problem
I setup my machine with NT and Linux, and followed the instructions in NT Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO. As per their instructions* I used bootpart to make the NT loader adjustments. When I boot, indeed I get the option for Linux from the NT loader (boot.ini), which points to the boot file made by bootpart; but NT reports: winnt root\System32\ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt please reinstall a copy of this file. Well, the file is there in /winnt/system32/ Both NT and linux still boot and run fine, only that I can't get the NT to boot linux (I now boot it from a floppy). This is a new installation (yesterday), so I doubt it is corrupt. I am reluctant to do a reinstall of all of NT, and don't know how to refresh this single file. Help, or pointers? Thanks Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *at least as best I could.. Some of their instructions were not clear to me; For Linux, you must install Lilo at the beginning of the Linux partition (as with OS/2 boot manager) and then add the Linux partition with BootPart: When you install Linux or run liloconfig, select Superblock of the root linux partition as location of Lilo. In my sample, this adds the line boot=/dev/sdb4 on the file /etc/lilo.conf -- I ran Lilo; with root and boot set to the partition of my linux. Is this all that is required here? Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem
I setup my machine with NT and Linux, and followed the instructions in NT Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO. As per their instructions* I used bootpart to make the NT loader adjustments. When I boot, indeed I get the option for Linux from the NT loader (boot.ini), which points to the boot file made by bootpart; but NT reports: winnt root\System32\ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt please reinstall a copy of this file. Well, the file is there in /winnt/system32/ How does your boot.ini (on NT partition) look like? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem
I had this problem when I changed my file system on nt from fat to ntfs. my boatloader line read something like Linux: ... c:/BOOTSECT.INI but the actual file was c:/bootsect.ini and it wouldn't load because the nt boatloader was looking for the file to be all caps (which was fine for fat because that was the dos name for the file). Any way when I changed the line in the boatloader to all lower case it booted linux. really, it was that simple. I'm not at my computer right now so I can't check the the boatloader init file. This was from memory so I hope it's clear. hth - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem
At 02:28 PM 6/3/98 -0400, you wrote: Interesting, Testing on the suggestion about upper/lower case sensitivity, (which was not a problem here, the file and boot.ini agreed), I copied the file from my workspace on D:\...\bootfile.lin to C:\bootfile.lin, and it works! Apparently having it on another file system causes some confusion.. Thanks for all suggestions. Gregory Guthrie -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
