[H-GEN] Dual Booting WinNT/RH6.2 with a dash of SCSI

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi David,

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, David Male wrote:
> > I'm not sure, I didn't install it in the first place. But we were
> > under the impression that Windows 2000 Professional requires you to
> > hand over the master boot record to its boot manager.
>
> No, LILO can be used to boot win2000 and Linux, I am  booting using
> Partition Magic Boot Manager installed in C:\ to boot  dos6/win311Primary
> hidden ...win95/warp4 primary hidden...win98 Primary which then has the NT
> boot loader making/NT4/Win2000 available on /hda/6 and /hda/12 with 3
> different Linux in the middle of the drive. These start with LILO after Boot
> Manager starts first.

So LILO is on the MBR and lets you boot to the NT boot loader? Or are you
always going through the win98 boot loader to get to NT?

> I have had LILO boot the active primary and the Linux partitions without a
> problem from the Master Boot record, but it cant hide/ unhide the other two
> dos partitions.

What do you mean by hide/unhide in this context? Sorry but I really am
just a programmer :-).

I have gotten a little further. We told LILO to install itself into the
bootsector of /dev/sda2. I then dd'd the first 512 bytes out to create a
bootsector image for the NT boot loader... unfortunately this file seems
to be blank (all zero bytes). I tried taking just the /boot/boot.b and
this kind-of works but only gets up to to the 'LI'...

... LILO's man pages promise comprehensive documentation, but the RedHat
distro we are using seems to ommit it :-).

Thanks for your help,

Raymond

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