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I have a problem installing LINUX on the same disk as
WinNT Workstation 3.51 (I'd appreciate an answer by email
if possible)


My set up is:

	drive 1 130Meg - devoted totally to DOS

	drive 2 1.7Gig partitioned as follows:

		500meg EXT2 partition for LINUX
		800meg NTFS partition for Win NT
		300meg DOS partition
		100meg LINUX Swap

	WinNT is installed on 2nd partition

	When the system boots the WinNT OS Loader gives a menu
	allowing boot of MSDos (on drive 1) or WinNT on 2nd
	partition of Drive 2.


I attempted to install Red Hat from Infomagic's CD ROM - it went
perfectly until the last step, installing LILO onto the 1st disk,
failed.

So I tried to install LILO onto a floppy - that failed as well.



So I tried to install Slackware from the same set of CDs.

That went through without hitch.  LILO appeared to install on the
1st drive, and I made a boot floppy.


However when I boot off the first drive the same WinNT menu
comes up as before, as if LINUX's LILO had not been installed.
(There is no option to boot LINUX.)

I could boot off the LILO floppy, and used the command:

	mount root=/dev/hdb2 ro

which booted up LINUX.  After that everything worked (almost)
perfectly.




So now I have the situation where I always have to use a boot
floppy to boot Linux which is a bit inconvenient.

Is there someone who has had similar experiences of the above
problems, i.e. what the hell went wrong with Redhat, and why
doesn't Lilo seem to work with WinNT?



p.s. a few more questions for some patient person:

	-	fdisk/mbr copies an 'old' copy of the MBR to the
		MBR

		where is this old copy stored, and who or what
		puts it there and when?


	-	before installing Linux, I actually tried
		fdisk/mbr to see what effect it would have on
		WinNT's boot manager menu, and, surprise, surprise,
		it had no effect.  (I expected to see the NT
		manager disappear and take me back to plain old DOS
		boot.) Any idea why this happened?


Regards, and thanks in advance,


Colin Newell
col@mega.com.au



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