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"Markku Tikkanen" <mtikkane@remove.hytti.uku.fi> wrote in message
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> Elem103 <elem103@smokey.aic.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> >> Can Win 2k boot loader run after lilo has taken in? I had the idea that
2k
> >> acts like NT and doesn't boot if it doesn't 'own' the MBR? Am I wrong?
>
> > I'm running my system with NT and Linux and Linux owns MBR.  Also have a
> > system with Win2K and linux and it works fine too.
>
> OK. I'm just making sure that this is possible, because Red Hat guides
> state that: "To create a dual-boot environment on a system that currently
> has NT, you must install LILO on the first sector of the root partition,
> not the MBR."
>
> I have also assumed, that NT or 2k won't boot if it doesn't
> own the MBR. Glad that you made it. How did you install the OS's? First
> the M$ stuff and then Linux, writing the MBR over?

Hmm.. i did this about a year ago.  Hope i still remember how to do it ..
properly.  Anyway, i think this is what i did.

I made sure that everything is in the first 1024 cylinders of the hard
drive, due to the use of old lilo.

ie.

Partition your hard drive with Linux first.  I use fdisk to partition
everything, specifying the correct partition type for each partition.  What
i have is:

/dev/hda1             1       131   1052226    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           132       262   1052257+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda3           263       279    136552+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4   *       280       526   1984027+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           280       296    136521   83  Linux
/dev/hda6           297       305     72261   83  Linux
/dev/hda7           306       338    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda8           339       469   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/hda9           470       526    457821   83  Linux

Win98 goes in /dev/hda1, WinNT goes into /dev/hda2 and Linux root partition
/ goes into ... /dev/hda5 :)  Yeah i know this is messy oh well.

Always always install Win95/98/ME2000 first.  That thing always mess around
with your MBR.

Then install WinNT.

Then it's time to install linux.  Install normally.

/dev/hda5               /
/dev/hda6               /tmp
/dev/hda7               /var
/dev/hda8               /usr
/dev/hda9               /home

Add LILO to MBR with /dev/hda1 as Win98, /dev/hda2 as WinNT and image in
/dev/hda5 as linux.

Then again, i manually edit lilo so that i can boot into those 3 operating
system and i'm using Debian.

eg.

boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda5
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
delay=5
default=Linux243
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3
        label=Linux243
        read-only
other=/dev/hda1
       label=Win95
other=/dev/hda2
       label=WinNT

> Anyway this prob below was odd, I thought that newer lilo's could load
> with that lba32 setting the OS being quite far from beginning of drive. Or
> is that the problem I'm having?

Well, i have not tested lilo much, so i can't really say.  Most of the time,
i just made sure that my boot partition is above 1024.

Cheers,
Elem103