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

[Martin Pool]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:01:35PM +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
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> 
> My current problem is that LILO appears to be broken.
> 
> Scenarios
> 
> 1/ W2K all by itself -- all is well
> 2/ RH 6.2 all by itself -- all is well
> 3/ RH 6.2 installed. Try to install W2K barfs because it wants the
>    first sector of the disk or it is taking its ball and going home.
> 
>    => Prob 1: I can't coerce W2K to install after a RH install on the
>       disk.

I think I did this:

 boot from a Linuxcare bootable business card(tm) :-)

 using cfdisk, make win95-fat32 (hda1), ext2(hda2) and
 linux-swap(hda5) partitions 

 boot from w19100 CD, install onto what it calls C:

 now install linux

 now install grub
 
> 4/ W2K installed and working. Install Linux either
> 	(a) LILO in MBR. Boot doesn't get past LI

I think I had that too; grub fixed it.

> 	(b) LILO in another partition. When I try to get the bootsector
>             from this by 'dd if=/dev/sda2 of=blah bs=512 count=1'
>             This boot sector is empty (all 0x0s).

Isn't the boot code at 

  dd bs=512 count=1 skip=1

because the first sector is reserved for <mumble>?

Like you, I am just a programmer not a hardware geek.

-- 
Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
+61 2 6262 8990
mbp at linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
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