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Mark Evans wrote:

> Tony Langdon (tlang@freeway.apana.org.au) wrote:
> : It's 05 Jun 98  15:08:29,
> : We'll return to syng@garlic.engr.ucdavis.edu and All's
> : discussion of Dual booting with Linux, NT Srv, WKST, and Win95
> :
> :  sy> Linux has to be in Boot partition?
> :  sy> Um.. I have Linux in extended parition, but have the LILO boot linux
> :  sy> from  there.. The partition is even on a slave hard disk or seconary
> :  sy> IDE channel. well.  It is bootable in thsi case, because of LILO.
> :
> : You can do this, but there is a catch:  To use LILO, LILO _must_ reside
> : on the MBR (dunno if Red Hat gives the option of putting it in the
>
> Wrong, it can be on either the MBR or any primary partition holding
> either a Linux filesystem or an extended partition.
>
> --
> Mark Evans
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Hmm - so why does Linux crash during Boot (I get "L" and that's it;-) in my
case?
root (/) is on hda8 and I have lilo installed on either extended partition
(would this be hda5? not shure!)or the logical one (in my case hda8)
Then I __something like__
   dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1"
to get the linux bootsector  and copy /bootsect.lnx to the dos
partition (hda1). Finally I modify boot.ini to add the line
   c:\bootsect.lnx,"Linux"
and _should_ be able to load linux by means of the NT Loader.....

However this doesn't work as I said and I still have to use loadlin under DOS
:-(

Any idea?

Sascha.