Any ideas on how to or where to look for info on triple booting Linux, Win NT and Win 98? Win NT and 98 reside on a FAT16 partition on hda1. Linux has / on hdb1 with /home on hdc1 and a swap partition on hdc5. Lilo is on the first sector of the Linux boot partition hdb1 so I'm booting it with a floppy at the moment. I presume that the NT boot loader can be configured to point to the Linux boot partition but I'm not really conversant with NT so I need some help here. I don't really want to use a third party boot manager or a floppy so it's either the NT boot loader or possibly loadlin but again that's a root I'd like to steer clear of. It wood be nice to have the NT loader come up at boot and have it select Linux as default. :-) Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
At 16:50 18/09/99 +0100, you wrote:
I presume that the NT boot loader can be configured to point to the Linux boot partition but I'm not really conversant with NT so I need some help here. I don't really want to use a third party boot manager or a floppy so it's either the NT boot loader or possibly loadlin but again that's a root I'd like to steer clear of. It wood be nice to have the NT loader come up at boot and have it select Linux as default. :-)
1. Boot into Linux. You'll have to create a copy of your Linux boot sector to install on your FAT16 partition. To do this, you'll have to run the following command: #dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 and then copy that file onto a DOS formatted floppy disk: #mcopy /bootsect.lnx a: (above assuming you have mtools installed). 2. Boot into NT and copy the file, bootsect.lnx, from the floppy to the root directory of drive c: c:\>copy a:bootsect.lnx c:\ 3. Remove the read only attribute on \boot.ini: c:\>attrib -r boot.ini 4. Edit boot.ini and insert the following code at the end: C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" so it will look a little like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ... C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" 5. Make boot.ini read only again: c:\>attrib +s +r boot.ini Reboot, and you'll see something like: OS Loader V4.00 Please select the operating system to start: Windows NT Workstation Version 4.0 Windows NT Workstation Version 4.0 [VGA mode] Linux 6. Select Linux and away you go! Regards, Martyn -- Martyn B. Drake (mobile: 0780 84 84 160, ICQ: #47407953) Systems Administrator, NetDirect Limited 161-165 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA http://www.netdirect.net.uk | 0181 293 7000 (main line) [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, John Woodard wrote:
Any ideas on how to or where to look for info on triple booting Linux, Win NT and Win 98? Win NT and 98 reside on a FAT16 partition on hda1. Linux has / on hdb1 with /home on hdc1 and a swap partition on hdc5. Lilo is on the first sector of the Linux boot partition hdb1 so I'm booting it with a floppy at the moment.
I run Linux/NT4 here with 98 in the bootloader but since it crashes too much, I manually removed it. What you can do is make lilo see Linux and the NT4 bootloader which in turn sees NT4 and 98/whatever. To do this: Install 98 Install NT4 which will see 98 and install the bootloader Install Linux which will move the bootloader and put in lilo instead lilo then points at linux or the NT4 bootloader so to boot linux do nothing at the prompt, to load nt4, type 'dos' then select nt4, to boot 98/whatever, select 'dos', then 98. Simple solution if Martin's doesn't work out. -- James Green jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Site Manager jg@linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
Martin/James, Cheers for your help.
What you can do is make lilo see Linux and the NT4 bootloader which in turn sees NT4 and 98/whatever. To do this:
Install 98 Install NT4 which will see 98 and install the bootloader Install Linux which will move the bootloader and put in lilo instead lilo then points at linux or the NT4 bootloader
Does this not depend where lilo resides, if you put it in the MBR then this would work but the NT loader needs the MBR all to its self (typical greedy Microsoft), therefore as I see it NT would not load? I could be completely wrong here though, it has been known on more than one occasion. :-)
so to boot linux do nothing at the prompt, to load nt4, type 'dos' then select nt4, to boot 98/whatever, select 'dos', then 98.
Simple solution if Martin's doesn't work out.
Thankfully Martin's solution is perfect and I now have the NT loader on boot with a menu to select between Linux, NT and Win98. BTW I found the how-to after I posted and it gave a solution pretty much as Martin's although it seems that Martin writes in English rather than "How-toeze". This is my first time playing around with NT and so far I have found it the biggest pile of crap that I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. For an Industry standard, supposedly secure/bomb proof OS it stinks. The install procedure is so confusing, give me Red Hat any day. Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
Well hello everybody, I signed up to the list last week, and I'm just popping my head above the fence to say Hi. I'm Dan, and I am living in teh area at the moment (in Needham Market in fact), but off back to Sunny university next week in Luton, so still kinda anglian based :) Oh, and what do I have to contribute to this wonderful group? Well I'm the Senior Unix systems administrator at ukshells, whihc adminittedly is based in birmingham, but luckily I only have to go there once a month (joys of telkeworking eh !). We run on a conbinartion of Solaris (on my desktop/other guys desktops (we're moving to Linux/engligtenment soon, buit we've been running CDE for ages, and are kinda used to its wierdness), Linux (customer boxes), and AIX (teh big bastard RS/6K webservers/mailservers, and a few desktops too, running CDE off the Sun Enterprise via xdmcp). In any case to start the ball rolling, as such, is there a meeting planned for near Christmas? Later Guys! Dan Jones [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
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