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The following has worked for me in the past. I'm using slackware, but the
person who gave me this info was using redhat.

Adding Linux to the NT Boot Loader
1. Make sure you have a back-up of your existing system. At the very least an
emergency bood disk for any OS existing on your machine.
2. Note what files are in the BOOT.INI file. These are the files that the boot
loader is using to load the OS that you choose.
3. Begin a Linux session.
4. Setup your Linux so that it will do the following.

� Use LILO? = YES
� Boot off of hard drive? = YES
� Make Linux default? = NO
� Install Master Boot Record = NO


5. Mount the root drive of the DOS Partition. This may already be done, like in
the instilation that is on my machine there is a /dosc mounted at boot. You
might need a command like:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 dos/

6. Copy the DOS or WIN95 boot sector to a new file:

 dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dos/[filename] count=1

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU INCLUDE THE "COUNT=1" ARGUMENT. IF YOU DON�T,
IT�LL WRITE ALL OVER YOUR DISK TILL IT RUNS OUT OF DISK TO WRITE ON. THAT WOULD
BE A VERY BAD THING.

You will want to choose a file name that you can recognize as the one you need
for this, any extension will work.  Like WIN95.BOT.  This file is basically
needed for back-up.  If you point the boot loader to this file you will create
a loop that keeps coming back to the selection menu. It is also a good idea to
avoid the .DOS extension.

7. Copy the Linux partion boot sector to a file on the DOS root drive.

 dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/dos/[filename] count=1
This command is expecting that your Linux root partition is the third
partition, if it isn�t change the hda3 to the correct enumeration.
AGAIN, REMEMBER THE COUNT ARGUMENT!

8. End linux session and re-boot to get to DOS.
9. Make copy of BOOT.INI to BOOT.IN0
10. Edit the BOOT.INI

� Add a line to point the Linux loader to it�s file. Something like
C:\LINUX.BOT

11. Re-boot your machine. IF you did everything rigth you will be buying
yourself a beer soon. J
12. Select Linux option from boot loader selection list.
13. If Linux starts, go and PARTY! If it didn�t you still have some work ahead
of you.
14. Try all the other options of your boot loader program.
15. If none of them are successful, use the emergency boot disks.
16. Change BOOT.INI to something else and rename BOOT.IN0 to BOOT.INI.
17. Find out where you erred and fix it.
18. If you are still uncessful, Go and buy a beer so you will have something to
cry in. L

David
J




Jeff Armani wrote:

> I have just bought myself a 4.3 GB hard drive and I am about to set up
> partitions and start installing my OSs.
> I was thinking to setup Win95 first and then NT, so NT sees '95 and offer's
> dual boot.  Then I was thinking to install Red Hat on its own partition.
> However, ther are several issues I'm not sure about:
>
> - Will Lilo automatically offer dual boot??
> - Does Linux have to be on my boot partition?
> - Can I make my boot partition NTFS and still have Linux and Win95 boot?
>
> Below is an explanation of how I am planning to layout my HD:
>
> Partition 1 (Boot):
> - 1.2GB
> - NTFS
> - Stores NT Srv & WKST
>
> Partition 2:
> - 1.2GB
> - NTFS
> - Application storage
>
> Partition 3:
> - 1.1GB
> - Fat16
> - Stores Win95 and Dos 6.22
>
> Partition 4:
> - 800MB
> - LS OS
> - Stores Linux
>
> If anyone sees a problem with this layout please tell me.  Any help is
> greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
> --
> Jeff Armani MCP
> General Computer Assistance