[lug] NT/Linux dual boot setup?

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

Elyse:
I followed the attached instructions, which were posted to this list at an
earlier time.  The setup works great for me!

Ferdinand

NT - Linux dual boot:

Date:             Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:00:07 -0600
From:             "Moore, Kevin L" <klmoore at ball.com>
Reply-To:         lug at lug.boulder.co.us
To:               "'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>

Jeff, install lilo into the boot block of your Linux root partition and then
copy that boot block to a file:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boosect.lin bs=512 count=1

change the above partition to whatever lilo is installed on and then copy
bootsect.lin to a floppy. Boot into NT and copy bootsect.lin to the root of
your system drive (C:\).
Change the attributes on boot.ini to make it writeable, and add this line to
it:

C:\bootsect.lin "Linux Version x.xxx"

Change boot.ini back to read only and you should be good to go. Let me know
if you have any questions....Kevin

Systems Administrator
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Boulder, Colorado
303.939.6174


-----Original Message-----
From: Howell, Jeff S [mailto:HowelJS at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:38 AM
To: blug
Subject: [lug] NT and Linux dual boot.

I know I've seen this in the threads on here before and can't seem to find
it. I want to trick the NT boot loader into having an option for LINUX.
Anyone remember how to do this?

Jeff Howell
EDS UNIX Support
PowerBak Administrator

Slackware Linux 4.0: The Ultimate NT Service Pack.


"Elyse M. Grasso" wrote:

> I just got a new (additional) hard drive and want to set things up so I
> have the option of booting NT so I can do my taxes. I already have OS/2 boot
> manager running on the machine in question.
>
> The current c: drive (a 1/2 gig seagate IDE drive, this box has been
> mutating for years)
> includes a couple of dos/Win3.1 partitions and the LINUX /boot, as well as
> Boot Manager, and there is a SCSI harddrive in the system that contains most
> of LINUX and the OS/2 partitions.
>
> The new hard drive is an 8gig IDE and will become the new boot drive when
> things get sorted out. thought the current drives will remain in the system
> for a while.
>
> I would appreciate any advice or pointers to relevant docs.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Elyse M. Grasso
> emgrasso at data-raptors.com
>
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