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I'd be very interested if you get a fix for this. My computer can only boot
Linux RH 6 from a floppy. I also tried to use the NT boot program after
following pretty much an identical procedure to the one you describe. When I
select Linux I get an "L" and it stops.

grahamr@mciworld.com

Dorothy Molloy <dmolloy@eno.org> wrote in message
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> I have installed windoze NT4 on my first partition and Linux (Redhat 6) on
> the second partition.  Lilo resides on linux's root partition (/dev/hda2).
> I have peeled off the bootsect.lnx file using
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> and copied this to my first partition so it's path is c:\bootsect.lnx.
> I have edited boot.ini with the line
> c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
> but when I choose this choice in the NT loader all I get is the curser
> flashing in the top left hand corner of the screen.
> So I tried using the bootpart programme written by G. Vollant which had
the
> same results.
> Can anyone tell me what has gone wrong?  Could it be that NT just can't
read
> the bootsect.lnx file as it is not in FAT16 format (I have left NT
formatted
> as FAT).  If so how do I convert this file?
>
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