[lug] NT/Linux HOWTO

[mohan kumar]

u can also try
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

Mohan S
--- "D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com> wrote:
> "Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> > 
> > I must not be looking at the correct link.
> > 
> >
>
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> > 
> > says do NT first.  Of course that document is
> pretty old.
> > 
> > Scott
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> It doesn't hurt to do either first, provided you
> have rescue disks. Then
> you can either go back and run lilo again (if lilo
> is in the MBR), or
> run the boot sector restore from NT (if NT boot
> loader is in MBR). When
> I've done this in the past, I always used the NT
> boot loader in MBR,
> installed lilo to the partition instead of MBR, then
> used dd to create a
> file of the 512 byte partition record, followed by
> booting to NT and
> copying it to the root partition. Btw, it is
> possible to run NT on other
> than the first drive, I've had it on the 3rd drive
> before (it was scsi,
> I don't know if that matters). A nice thing here is
> that you now have a
> backup on floppy of the linux partition record that
> can be restored with
> dd at any time if a new lilo messes up (and if you
> haven't removed old
> boot files).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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