Re: Lilo & other problems

["J. Dow" <jdow earthlink net>]

From: <Anders.Karlsson@liv.se>

> I have some knowledge of NT/2000 but I am kind of new to linux and need some
help.
> Bought RedHat 7.0 and got started.
>  Installed with LILO on MBR and this worked fine but now it fails to boot.
> All I can see know at boot time is LI (two first letters) and there it stops.
> The first partition /dev/ida/c0d0p1 contains the Compaq configuration utility.
I updated this Compaq specific partition and maybe that explains why I have
problems. Have a boot floppy though, but it takes a LONG time to boot this way
and I of course want to reinstall it on MBR.

NT still boots? Amazing! I do it a different way. I install lilo to the Linux
/boot partition on the disk. Then I use "dd" to create a copy of block zero of
that partition, "dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=bootsect.lnx count=1". Then I mount a DOS
disk and copy this file to the disk. I reboot. I copy that file into NT's
C: directory. Then I edit "boot.ini" to point to this file something like:
C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"

So booting is two steps via ntloader then lilo. That is the safest way I
found for setting up the dual boot.
{^_^}