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Article #15Re: nt doesn't feel like booting
From: Craig Hart
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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Most boot managers aren't OK to use with NT ...why? because NT places critical boot-info OUTSIDE the partition!!! and your boot-manager program isn't designed to handle that. Jesse Courchaine <jesse@starmail.com> wrote in message news:37560585.20A70F89@starmail.com... > Here's the situation: > 1) 6.4 GB HD, using a boot manager like bootmagic (called masterbooter) > that switches the selected partition active and hides the other ones > 2) Installed 95 on first partition > 3) Installed Linux on third partition, with an extended partition after > that and a logical swap partition > 4) Attempted to install NT on second partition (formated FAT).. it got > to the part of setup where it reboots and attempts to load the blue > screen > 5) rebooted and tried to select the partition but it stopped dead.. > 6) looked at NT partition.. it has the boot files there, just doesn't > want to boot > 7) tried over without a boot manager (had NT partition load with dos, > that worked fine, until NT tried to reboot again and no luck.) > > any sugguestions? i think im missing something here :) > > Thanks all, > -Jesse [ jesse @ starmail . com ]
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