🚀 go-pugleaf

Two comments. First, the generic.

Make sure that your BIOS can see the NT boot partition. If the NT partition
lies beyond the BIOS' ability to see it, then it will not boot. You don't
give any drive geometries, so I'll have to assume that your BIOS can see it,
or the NT partition is in the first 1024 cylinders, or the drive in question
uses sector translation.

Second, here is my stock lilo.conf (RedHat 6.1, SMP kernel)

boot=/dev/sda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12
    label=linux
    root=/dev/sda2
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12.img
    read-only
other=/dev/sda1
    label=nt
    table=/dev/sda

The reason NT is on sda1 and Linux on sda2 is I installed NT first, and gave
it a 700MB partition in the first 1024MB visible to my system's BIOS (I have
a Baracuda 9 SCSI, 8 gig drive). Anyway, that's my setup, and I hope it
helps you out.

Warren Stramiello wrote:

> Ok, folks... how the heck do I set up LILO to boot to NT as well as
> Linux?
>
> Here's my partition setup for my boot drive:
>
> /dev/hda
>
> hda1 : 80mb blank FAT16 Partition (multi-purpose boot partition that
> isn't in use right now) (active)
> hda5 : Linux ext2 (Debian 2.2)
> hda6 : Linux swap
> hda7 : NTFS Windows2000 Partition (NT is installed into the Winnt
> directory)
>
> Here's my lilo.conf file info:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hda5
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> delay=200
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> image=/vmlinuz
>     label=Linux
>     read-only
> other=/dev/hda7
>     label=Win2k
>     loader = /boot/chain.b
>     unstable
>
> I nabbed the other...unstable bits from a help page... and oddly enough,
> it doesn't work.
> Whenever I choose the Win2k option, it gives me a 'PRESS CNTRL-ALT-DEL'
> message which, when complied with, bumps me into LILO again.
>
> So what am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it?
> ~Warren