Re: Booting NT and Linux

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From: Paul Gear
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:00

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Unfortunately, i've already installed NT, and already seen this behaviour. 
Is there any easy way to correct it?  Just pointing LILO at the NT
partition doesn't work - it's not bootable.
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Mike Holland <news@golden.wattle.id.au> wrote in article
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> Lilo can choose between NT, 95 and Linux.
> 
> But you must hide the DOS partition when installing NT, 
> otherwise it will boot off the DOS partition. Just change
> the partition type temporarily with Linux fdisk.
>   Watch out for odd things happening with drive letter
> allocations though.
> 
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> Mike Holland <mike@golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
> Never attribute to poor spelling, that which can be explained by bad
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From: "Paul Gear" <paulgear@no_spam_please.worldview.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Booting NT and Linux
Date: 1997/11/28
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