Lilo for booting NT

[andre]

Lilo for booting into NT, can it be done?
I've looked for helpfiles but I havn't found any that says you can do this, the man page gives an example for dos, I tried that for the NT disk but got an error cannot find ntdlr.

I'm booting linux from /dev/sda
NT from /dev/sdb fat16

do I need a boot image??? :confused:

[FyberOptyx]

I don't have NT on my machine. But from what I can remember you install LILO on your linux partition not the MBR.
This will then load the NT boot loader.
I could be mistaken.
I'm sure you will find a post relevant to this if you search.
If I find one I will post.

Found one but there are many more http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003276

[ 07 February 2001: Message edited by: FyberOptyx ]

[PLBlaze]

Simply boot to linux and do this from command line dd if=/dev/sda1 of=linux.boot ibs=512 obs=512 count=1.I assume your linux is on first partition of scsi drive (sda1).Either copy linux.boot to your fat partition and then reboot to NT, edit boot.ini under your root dir (c:\) and add this line C:\linux.boot="Linux".Reboot to test...while you at it check the booting NHF all the instrucions are there.Hope this helps.

[ 07 February 2001: Message edited by: PLBlaze ]

[The King Ant]

There are two basic ways to dual-boot Linux and NT. One is using Lilo, the other is using the NT bootloader.

The above to comments refer to using the NT bootloader.

To use Lilo, it's basically the same as booting to dos, I'm not sure why it didn't work for you. I think Lilo should go in the MBR, and you specify /dev/sdb1 as your Dos/NT path.