On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Daniel Casey wrote:
I've tried to use the doc at:
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/nt.html
I've already got NT on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx) with a C: and D:.
During the SuSE 6.4 installation, I setup:
/dev/hda3 Extended 2.5gb /dev/hda5 /boot 5mb /dev/hda6 /swap 300mb /dev/hda7 / 2.2gb
And when asked about LILO during installation, the help doc says to install LILO in the Linux root partition, which should be /dev/hda7 for me, right?
yes
I did this, went with the default installation and when it was finished it said it had to reboot. Well, after it booted, it came up to WinNT (of course).
The disk's MBR still has the NT bootloader on it. It knows nothing about Linux yet.
So now I'm thinking, "How do I boot my Linux partition and run the dd command they recommend to get the bootsek.lin file created for NT to use for it's boot loader menu?"
You have to boot from a floppy. If you didn't make one, you may have to reinstall, and choose to make a rescue disk or "write boot sector to a floppy". There might be a way to boot off the install CD by typing "boot=/dev/hda7" at the first prompt. I dont know if that will work but I would try it before I re-installed I just set up a Win2K/SuSE7.0 dual boot using the guides at http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp It is basically the same for NT. HTH
Thanks,
Daniel And once back in linux, how do I specify the floppy for my outfile, is it just /floppy?
/dev/fd0 should work
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