[ltp] Re: multi booting Linux, NT4, and DOS/Win98

[daniel walker]

how do I quite this mailing list?
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael B. Haynie <mbhaynie@switch.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: [ltp] Re: multi booting Linux, NT4, and DOS/Win98


> IIRC, I only had to install the linux MBR, and edit lilo.conf.
>
> The system started life with NT and a crufty version of System Commander
> already installed. I used PartitionMagic to shrink the NTFS partition
> from 8GB to 2GB (being generous to NT, for no really good reason :),
> then installed RH6.1 in the usual way, allowing it to install its own
> boot loader in the MBR. I then made the changes you see below to
> lilo.conf. I have made similar changes to an origonally NT only system
> on one disk, and one with dual disks, with only slight changes, all in
> lilo.conf
>
> The most important part is the change-rules section, which tricks NT
> into thinking that its partition is the only one there. The other=
> section labled NT uses the new NT rule to accomplish this. The other=
> section labeled DOS will boot DOS on an old system commander partition
> which I could not get to work after hacking on it for several days, but
> it provides an example of how to boot a DOS/Win98 partition.
>
> The file below is for my desktop system which is a vanila Intel board. I
> think that the info below should work fine for a TP as well, since there
> is no hardware specific information other than partition/device names. I
> did read the various HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs along the way to figuring
> this out, along with the lilo documentation. It only took 2 days to work
> it out :-/
>
> Lilo is really pretty clever, once you figure out the right incantation
> <g>.
>
> HTH
>
> ---/etc/lilo.conf-------->8---------------
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
>
> change-rules
>   type=NT
>     normal=0x7
>     hidden=0x17
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda5
>
> other=/dev/hda2
> label=dos
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=nt
> change
>   partition=/dev/hda1
>   set=NT_normal
> ------------>8------------
>
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> >
> > I've only had experience (mostly bad) with NT4; none with Win2K.  It may
> > have been that I was just infinitely thick, but after reading the
> > aforementioned "booting with NT" mini-howto and trying a few times to do
it
> > the right (lilo on hda), I finally had to allow NT to boot linux via
lilo
> > on hda3, the linux partition.
> >
> > I was under the constraint that NT was already loaded and I didn't want
to
> > re-install NT after Linux.
> >
> > Would welcome pointers to doing it the right way.
> >
> > hjm
> >
>
>
> --Michael
>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man."
>                           - George Bernard Shaw
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