Some installfest issues

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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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