[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux dual boot w/NT4

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Fri Apr 5 14:42:08 CST 2002


http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html

HOWTOs can be helpful.  Learning how to find them can be more helpful. 
Yahoo/Google is your friend.

http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=Linux+NT+HOWTO&hc=0&hs=1


On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 13:29, Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>   there used to be a readme out there about linking in linux into the NT4
> boot loader.
> 
>   Basically, if you tell lilo to write the boot sector into another
> location (such as /dev/hdb1), and use dd to turn it into a file and put it
> on the NT4 disk as a file, then you can edit the normally invisible NT4
> boot.ini file to give linux as one of the choices.
> 
>   I did this about 4 years ago, and that is all I remember. It was NT4,
> SP3 at the time, but it worked through service packs past that.
> 
> On 4 Apr 2002, 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
> 
> 
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