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Dan Murphy wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: DM> I found some doc on boot.ini and the whole NT boot process. DM> Then found this in the NT Resource guide: DM> "UNIX cannot be an alternate operating system; only MS-DOS DM> and OS/2 can be used as alternates." DM> Hmmmm, is this really true? Yes and no. DM> The way I imagined booting Linux was to have the NT boot DM> manager start LILO on the second drive, which would then DM> boot Linux. Sound OK? Or, am I just going to have to boot DM> Linux from a floppy? Welsh's "Running Linux" said things may DM> be a bit tricky with OS/2 and NT and gave a few hints. OS/2 is not especially tricky, and the OS/2 Boot Manager will support booting NT. The NT loader does not support loading OS/2, however. DM> Right now as a test, I'm just trying to use the NT boot DM> manager to boot DOS on the second drive, and am not doing DM> real great. The second drive is formatted with DOS boot DM> files, but the system just crashes when I direct the boot DM> manager to boot from the second drive. I'm missing a file DM> named bootsect.dos and am trying to find it now. The DM> resource guide says bootsect.dos is needed to boot an DM> alternate OS, even if the OS isn't DOS. DM> Any insights? As far as I know -- and I'm no NT expert -- the BOOTSECT.DOS issue applies to alternating DOS and NT *from the same partition*, what OS/2 calls "Dual Boot." As a practical matter, what you want to do is install LILO as your main boot manager. Getting LILO to boot Linux from one partition and NT from another partition is a supported procedure in the LILO documentation. In this configuration, LILO resides in its own special partition. -- Mike
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