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OK, I got a new PC at work, installed NT, and will soon install Linux as soon as my CD's arrive from Infomagic. I've got a question regarding multiple boot. I've got two hard drives, and plan on putting Linux on the first partition of the second drive. Not knowing exacly how the NT multiple boot loader would do this, I started digging around. I found some doc on boot.ini and the whole NT boot process. Then found this in the NT Resource guide: "UNIX cannot be an alternate operating system; only MS-DOS and OS/2 can be used as alternates." Hmmmm, is this really true? The way I imagined booting Linux was to have the NT boot manager start LILO on the second drive, which would then boot Linux. Sound OK? Or, am I just going to have to boot Linux from a floppy? Welsh's "Running Linux" said things may be a bit tricky with OS/2 and NT and gave a few hints. Right now as a test, I'm just trying to use the NT boot manager to boot DOS on the second drive, and am not doing real great. The second drive is formatted with DOS boot files, but the system just crashes when I direct the boot manager to boot from the second drive. I'm missing a file named bootsect.dos and am trying to find it now. The resource guide says bootsect.dos is needed to boot an alternate OS, even if the OS isn't DOS. Any insights? Thanks, Dan Murphy Dan Murphy murph at vmark.com Vmark Software 74260.3322 at compuserve.com Westboro, MA
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