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

[john rogers]

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:
Hi Raymond,
I am not sure why,  not a SCSI RAID by any chance ? 

But what was wrong with using LILO as the boot manager ?

if you want a nice message (not a menu) at startup up you could make a text one
and put a path to it in lilo.conf  eg message=/boot/filename




> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We are trying to get WinNT dual booting with RH6.2. We have succeeded with
> this on all but one machine. That machine is a dual-processor SCSI
> box. All the others a single processor IDEs.
> 
> The procedure we have followed is:
> 	(a) put /boot on own device
> 	(b) get first 512 bytes of /boot's device
> 		(ie dd if=/dev/[hs]da[0-9] of=BOOTSECT.LNX)
> 	(c) copy over to Windows C:
> 	(d) edit boot.ini, update permissions appropriately (+r +s)
> 
> This results in the NT boot loader displaying a helpful message letting
> you choose Linux or NT. Under IDE I can choose Linux and get dropped to
> LILO from whence I boot. Under SCSI I get a blank screen of death (not
> even the first L appears).
> 
> Any ideas why this would work for NT/RH6.1/IDE but not NT/RH6.1/SCSI?
> 
> Oops. s/WinNT/Win2K Professional/g But you know what I mean ;-).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raymond
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John Rogers
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