From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Johnson Subject: [Fwd: Re: re-setting up LILO?] Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:36:03 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D10CF13.5080100@adelphia.net> Reply-To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -------- Original Message -------- Richard Adams wrote: >On Wednesday 19 June 2002 14:36, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > >>On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:23:21PM +0000, Richard Adams wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:03, lawson_whitney@juno.com wrote: >>> >>>>FAIK this will make the NTFS unbootable. I know nothing about XP, but >>>>I think the NT bootloader can be installed into the partition boot >>>>record where lilo can chain-boot it if you scrabble through the >>>>options. I suspect it will try to use the MBR if you let it. >>>> >>>XP will boot just like dos does, no problem at all. >>>I have 2 machines here with XP and there is no problem at all. >>> >>Lawson is correct. LILO can't but an NTFS partition. XP may use NTFS. >> > >Now thats funny then as i use lilo to boot XP, as i said, "no propblem at >all". > You are correct. I just told LILO to use hda (didn't think it would be that simple), and it boots like a champ with no problems (XP boots no problem also). Thanks. I even recompiled my kernel (first time) to add ntfs support, modified lilo.conf, and with no help I might add. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this system. Thanks again -=Mark=- and thanks to everyone for their help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs