[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux dual boot w/NT4

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 20:11, Steve Baker wrote:
> Ron Hamilton wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:47:28PM -0600, jm wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of loading Mandrake 8.2 on my PC at work, which has NT4 SP6
> > > installed.  Does anyone know of any dual boot problems with NT that I
> > > should be aware of?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Joe
> > 
> > I ran Mandrake 8.0 and later 8.1 alongside NT4 for about a year on 5 HP
> > Pavillion PC's without incident.  I had heard complaints about NT having
> > it's own bootloader but it didn't seem to matter once I did the Linux
> > install.  Both Grub and Lilo seemed to work just fine.
> 
> There *is* some kind of wierdness with NT and Linux - I think it's
> necessary to install NT *before* you install Linux - I don't recollect
> why - but I'm sure a quick google/linux search will turn up the answer.
> 
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I've had to do that no matter the MS OS.  I had to install NT first on
my laptop and 98 first on my desktop at home.  I think MS 9x/NT/2K just
wants to be first on the disk no matter what.  Although NT has it's own
bootloader, I still haven't had any problems dual booting on my laptop.

When I boot my laptop, I get lilo first and if I select NT, it then
brings up the NT bootloader and everything is just fine.  FWIW, I used
PartitionMagic to partition both my laptop and home PC.

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