Some installfest issues

[Jim Kelly-Rand]

In all the dual boot documentation that I have read, the NT boot loader must
be on the first partition and you must load linux through NT's boot loader.
Ihave documentation at home of the process I went through to achieve an
NT/Linux dual boot but I am not there now.

	Jim Kelly-Rand

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:00 AM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Some installfest issues
> 
> 
> There was one person at the installfest who wanted to put a 
> linux boot 
> partition  on his primary disk along with NT (or XP).
> Initially, we resized his partitions to put the Linux boot 
> partition after 
> the NT partition. However, at some point he decided to put 
> the Linux boot 
> partition in froint of NT. Other than this took until 6:15, this will 
> render Windows unbootable because any time you move the boot 
> loader, you 
> must update the MBR to point to it. 
> Windows9x uses the SYS.EXE command to do this. I'm not sure 
> how to do this 
> in NT or XP. BTW: NT may reside on a partition other than the first 
> primary, where 9x must be on the first primary (some of it anyway). 
> 
> On Linux, you just rerun LILO, and it will adjust the pointer 
> to the kernel 
> and system map. 
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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