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Gerhard Lippl <gerhard.lippl@landshut.org> writes:

> Hello Frank!
> > I've installed NT and linux on my machine. I boot NT with the ntldr and
> > linux with a floppy.
> > I would like to able to boot both with one bootloader, which gives me the
> > options to choose which system I'd like to start.
> > Have heard that this doesn't work with NT on NTFS.
> > Has anyone an idea if there is a way to make this possible in spite of the
> > NTFS?
> I've done that several times. The most important thing is not to use the
> NT-Bootmanager, because it doesn't support the ext2fs and doesn't work
> together with LILO either. Instead you have to install LILO in the MBR
> (master boot record). As LILO does not support NTFS itself, you have to
> mount the device you have NT installed on as an OS/2 partition. That
> works fine.
>  Best regards,
>   Gerhard.

NT and Linux can coexist just fine. That's right. Everything else you
write is wrong, I'm afraid. You can have LILO load NTloader, or the
other way around, have NTloader load LILO.  You do _not_ have to
install LILO in MBR to make this work, either. Actaully that may upset
NT (blue screen), even though it works fine for me. Read about this in
the Linux+NT-loader mini howto. Using the bootpart.exe utility makes
setting up NTloader even more easy than setting up LILO :-)

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Jon Martin Solaas
jonso@ifi.uio.no