[ILUG] Dual booting NT an Linux

[Liam Bedford]

> I've Linux and NT living together in (reasonable) harmony on an IBM
> Thinkpad, have LILO managing the boot, and I've had no problems whatsoever.
> 
> Apparently it's the NT OS Loader that has problems with loading Linux, yes?
> So that's not the way to go, just let it think it's only got NT to worry
> about, once you've decided, with LILO, to boot NT.
> 
> Unless I'm talking way out of my arse.
Well. this machine has NT on it (not that it boots it more than once a month :))

I now always do the following:
(doesn't matter which OS you install)
install lilo in the BR of the partition it's running in (i.e. /dev/hda3)
add nt to it (other=/dev/hda1  label=nt  table=/dev/hda)
add linux (image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5ac7 or whatever)

whenever an MS product decides to add itself to the machine, just set the
lilo partition to be the active one, and bob's deine unkle :)

the other thing to try to find is os-bs (the last beta of version 2 was free)
and have that in the MBR, but then the random MS product will clobber it.

Regards
L.
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