I have a defualt SUSE 7.2 install. I previously had win2k installed so I choose to leave that. During the install, it prompted me to put a floppy in for booting lilo. I did that. Now, without the floppy, I get my old NT, with the floppy, I get LILO. How can I get LILO booting off my hard disk? I have this boot floppy, and of course the install CD's from SUSE. Thanks, -Peter
If you have the SuSE Reference Manual, it's on Page 105 [ Windows NT and Linux on One Hard Disk ]. If you don't have it, check out the NT OS Loader + Linux mini HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Post back if you have problems... On 3 Sep 2001, pkellner wrote:
I have a defualt SUSE 7.2 install. I previously had win2k installed so I choose to leave that. During the install, it prompted me to put a floppy in for booting lilo. I did that.
Now, without the floppy, I get my old NT, with the floppy, I get LILO. How can I get LILO booting off my hard disk?
I have this boot floppy, and of course the install CD's from SUSE. -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:24:57PM -0700, pkellner wrote:
I have a defualt SUSE 7.2 install. I previously had win2k installed so I choose to leave that. During the install, it prompted me to put a floppy in for booting lilo. I did that. Now, without the floppy, I get my old NT, with the floppy, I get LILO. How can I get LILO booting off my hard disk? I have this boot floppy, and of course the install CD's from SUSE. Thanks, -Peter
When I was dual booting with NT 4.0, all the books said do complicated things with the NT loader or various other workarounds. I found that in *my* case, the NT loader didn't have a problem with LILO being in the MBR. To get LILO to install into the MBR, rather onto a floppy, change the boot= line in lilo.conf to point to your boot device (in my case, hda): boot=/dev/hda It might be a good idea to make sure you have a backup of the MBR. You can get LILO to create one by adding a line similar to the following: backup=/boot/mbr.old Just make sure you don't run LILO twice without changing the file name, otherwise your backup will be overwritten the next time LILO is run (with the possibly faulty MBR that you've just created). You can also back up the MBR with a command similar to: dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/mbr.old.dd bs=512 count=1 Once LILO is installed in the MBR, you can check to see if you can still boot W2K. As usual, be careful... Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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