Lilo and NT

Lilo and NT

[Oliver Ob]

There is some problem here. I had been using my machine dualbooting
with Lilo for NT and Linux. Worked like a charme.

But now my company uses SAFEGUARD and that thing needs the mbr for NT,
I have not done this before and ask for your advice:

How can I continue using LILO for NT/Linux dualboot 
*when I need the orignal ("safeguarded") NT-Bootsector instead of Lilo
in the mbr?

What to do?

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Re: Lilo and NT

[Riley Williams]

Hi Oliver.

> There is some problem here. I had been using my machine dualbooting
> with Lilo for NT and Linux. Worked like a charme.
>
> But now my company uses SAFEGUARD and that thing needs the mbr for NT,
> I have not done this before and ask for your advice:
>
> How can I continue using LILO for NT/Linux dualboot 
> *when I need the orignal ("safeguarded") NT-Bootsector instead of Lilo
> in the mbr?
>
> What to do?

Drop LILO in the boot sector of whichever partition has the Linux /boot
directory in it, and set the partition table such that the said
partition is the active one. That should deal with this problem.

Best wishes from Riley.

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Re: Lilo and NT-Safeguard -NO Diskdrive available on Toshiba!-

[Oliver Ob]

Riley Williams schrieb:
> 
> Hi Oliver.
> 
> > There is some problem here. I had been using my machine dualbooting
> > with Lilo for NT and Linux. Worked like a charme.
> >
> > But now my company uses SAFEGUARD and that thing needs the mbr for NT,
> > I have not done this before and ask for your advice:
> >
> > How can I continue using LILO for NT/Linux dualboot
> > *when I need the orignal ("safeguarded") NT-Bootsector instead of Lilo
> > in the mbr?
> >
> > What to do?
> 
> Drop LILO in the boot sector of whichever partition has the Linux /boot
> directory in it, and set the partition table such that the said
> partition is the active one. That should deal with this problem.
> 
> Best wishes from Riley.

Thanks Riley, but that did not solve it. See below.
Must I change or delete the mbr on /dev/hda?

When I reboot it tells me that (I try to translate that from German here)
it is missing a boot system. (something like operating system not found)

I guess that is because I have also win98 installed and now it (that means
the rest of the data in the mbr) seems to search for win98, but now the
activated partition is hda2-linux, including the lilo with these results:

linux:~ # lilo
Added l *
Added failsafe
Warning: CHANGE AUTOMATIC assumed after "other=/dev/hda3"
Added w
Added memtest86
TABLE may not be specified near line 46 in file /etc/lilo.conf

What does that "CHANGE AUTOMATIC" mean?
/dev/hda3 is my W98 partition.
And what about that sentence that the table
may not be specified? Line 46 ist the EOF!!! So what table???

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Re: Lilo and NT

[Natarajan K]

On Monday 05 Aug 2002 4:48 am, Oliver Ob wrote:
> There is some problem here. I had been using my machine dualbooting
> with Lilo for NT and Linux. Worked like a charme.
>
> But now my company uses SAFEGUARD and that thing needs the mbr for NT,
> I have not done this before and ask for your advice:
>
> How can I continue using LILO for NT/Linux dualboot
> *when I need the orignal ("safeguarded") NT-Bootsector instead of Lilo
> in the mbr?
>
> What to do?

Let LILO save the boot record in the /boot or / partition which ever is 
approriate i.e. where ever the kernel image resides. Do a dd of the first 512 
bytes of the partition to which LILO has written to and save it in a file on 
the windoze partition. Add this to your NT boot loader option i.e. probably 
the boot.ini file specifying the path to the file you just created.
	I have no idea of SAFEGUARD. This is enough to get Linux on to NT's boot 
loader(if that is what is going to be called by SAFEGUARD).
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