At 02:26 PM 10/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm trying to make a triboot system. Here's what I want to do: Run Win 9x
>(for games) :-), NT (for all of those visual studio things that I'm sorta
>forced to run, but don't trust 9x to compile), and Linux (RH 5) - for
>everything else. Does anyone know how to make LILO and OS Loader (with NT)
>and possibly system commander behave with one another?
>
>Also, I'd like to use FAT 32 for 9x, NTFS for NT, and Linux's native file
>system for Linux. Am I dreaming to think I can do all that in the same box
>with one hard drive?
>
>Any suggestions and horror stories would be appreciated.
I have a tri boot system. This is what I did:
1) Install 9x first (because it will destroy your MBR if you don't but not
if you have NT installed)
2) Install NT.
3) Install Linux
3.1) Reboot with a boot disk (don't install LILO to the MBR)
4) Run lilo and set it up so that it writes not to the MBR but to the drive
on which Linux is intalled. So if you're root partition is /dev/hda1 write
the information to /dev/hda
5) Do this:
dd of=/bootsect.lnx if=/dev/hd? count=512
where /dev/hd? is the place you just told LILO to write it's info to
check the syntax of the dd command but I think this is right. Basically
you just want to get the first 512 bytes of info off of the drive because
that's where boot information is stored
6) Transfer bootsect.lnx to your C:\ so that NT's boot loader can see it.
NT needs this information to boot your Linux system
7) Add the line
C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
to C:\boot.ini
8) Reboot and try to select Linux. If it something goes wrong, it's not my
fault. No seriously I think I covered everything.
You cannot have a FAT32 partition and have NT boot off of it, because NT's
boot loader only understands FAT and NTFS. If the C: is none of these
you're screwed, so if you really want FAT32 you can't have it because 9x
has to be installed to the C: drive. Screwy ain't it. If you don't want
any interaction between NT and 9x then let LILO do all the work. It should
be fairly straight foward, but since I installed Linux after NT I didn't
want to start messing with the MBR and violate some of the assumptions NT
might make. There may be absolutely no problem writing LILO boot
information to the MBR but I haven't had any experience with it.
-Lonnie McCullough
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