Follow-up: RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
FWIW, I went ahead and tried the loadlin deal from the DOS config.sys multi-boot and it worked flawlessly. I used the defaults from the manual.txt as examples, and copied my linux kernel from my floppy boot diskette for the boot image. The line is: shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\linux root=/dev/hdd1 ro vga=ask I'll try the loading from the NT boot menu directly after I Install NT5 beta 2 since I removed beta 1, as most of it doesn't work... Now to upgrade to Debian 2.0 :) Regards, Kendrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
Dennis Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT or win95. This is quite different from what has been described in those mini HOWTOs. So I suspect that although MS claim to modify MBR, but in fact they just modify the boot sector of the active partition. Correct me if I'm wrong 'cause I'm not the expert. Note: my first partition on first HD is a DOS (vfat) partion. I use it to hold those ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com etc. Dennis The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt. I don't have a handbook here, so it might be a good idea to look for some suse user on irc. May the Source be with you. Mrvn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
B == Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the B NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt. They have a nice supportdatabase. The NT-Loader entry is http://www.suse.de/support-db/sdb_e/nt.html Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
Kendrick, You might find it a lot easier to use the NT Boot loader to boot your linux partition - I'll be trying this myself soon I'll let you know how it goes - there's a mini howto on the subject You could also try allowing LILO to boot from /dev/hdc1 boot sector (or whatever it's on) and get the NT Bootloader to boot that partition directly - it should work (in theory anyway) (take a look at the mini howto - it has examples of the syntax for boot.ini - it's a bit like the /dev/xxx style) Hope it goes well :) Proinnsais -Original Message- From: Kendrick Myatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:03 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...) I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it. My second drive had NT5 on it. My third drive has the Debian. NT must control the boot sector on the first drive, so I'm making win98 the default startup and setting it to present menu always. From there I can F4 or choose to boot to DOS which will prompt me with the DOS multi-config menu where I will choose either DOS or to run loadlin and boot linux. With the exception of using the loadlin, all the other parts have been done and work fine to let me into the other 3 OS... Regards, Kendrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT or win95. This is quite different from what has been described in those mini HOWTOs. So I suspect that although MS claim to modify MBR, but in fact they just modify the boot sector of the active partition. Correct me if I'm wrong 'cause I'm not the expert. Note: my first partition on first HD is a DOS (vfat) partion. I use it to hold those ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com etc. Dennis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it. My second drive had NT5 on it. My third drive has the Debian. NT must control the boot sector on the first drive, so I'm making win98 the default startup and setting it to present menu always. From there I can F4 or choose to boot to DOS which will prompt me with the DOS multi-config menu where I will choose either DOS or to run loadlin and boot linux. With the exception of using the loadlin, all the other parts have been done and work fine to let me into the other 3 OS... Regards, Kendrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
There is a mini FAQ on this.. basically, to boot linux from NT's boot leader you need to do the following: 1) dd if=/dev/hda3 of=bootsect.lnx /bs=512 count=1 (assuming your linux root partition is bootable and /dev/hda3) 2) copy bootsect.lnx to C:\bootsect.lnx 3) add 'C:\bootsect.lnx = Linux' to your boot.ini file -Paul On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it. My second drive had NT5 on it. My third drive has the Debian. NT must control the boot sector on the first drive, so I'm making win98 the default startup and setting it to present menu always. From there I can F4 or choose to boot to DOS which will prompt me with the DOS multi-config menu where I will choose either DOS or to run loadlin and boot linux. With the exception of using the loadlin, all the other parts have been done and work fine to let me into the other 3 OS... Regards, Kendrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it. My second drive had NT5 on it. My third drive has the Debian. NT must control the boot sector on the first drive, so I'm making win98 the default startup and setting it to present menu always. From there I can F4 or choose to boot to DOS which will prompt me with the DOS multi-config menu where I will choose either DOS or to run loadlin and boot linux. With the exception of using the loadlin, all the other parts have been done and work fine to let me into the other 3 OS... Since you're already using the NT boot loader, why don't you just add linux to the NT boot loader menu rather than using loadlin? I used to have NT 4, DOS, and Linux and I used the NT boot loader to decide which to boot to. I forget exactly how to set up the NT boot loader, but I know it wasn't hard... I believe I found the info in a HOWTO somewhere. I know that I had to use dd to rip the boot sector from my linux partition into a file, put that in my NT root directory, and add an entry to the config file for the NT boot loader. Eric. -- _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ | |__/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
