Re: [TCLUG:2449] Boot from hard drive using NT bootloader?

[Gordon Pedersen <gordo@pclink.com>]

In a nutshell, I did this:

-	Placed boot lines for NT and Linux in lilo.conf.
-	Install lilo's boot loader in a linux partition (it happens to be an
extended partition, /dev/sda3, and my various logical linux partitions
all live under it, from /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda11).
-	From fdisk, marked /dev/sda3 as the (only) bootable partition.  Thus I
get lilo at bootup, and can choose which OS to start.

See attached lilo.conf.


Chris Schumann wrote:
> 
> I have a computer with SuSE Linux installed on the second partition of my
> second hard drive. It boots from floppy just fine, but even after trying
> the details (as such) in the Linux-NT bootloader mini howto, I still can't
> get Linux to boot from the hard drive. I just get a blinky cursor.
> 
> Linux still boots from the floppy.
> 
> I'd appreciate some help getting this to work. (and then I can worry about
> SMP and my DSL setup!)
> 
> What info do I need to share? Should I capture some output (perhaps of
> fdisk)?
> 
> Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>
> 
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boot=/dev/sda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
	label=linux
	root=/dev/sda5
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.34-0.6.img
	read-only
other=/dev/sda1
	label=fatnt
	table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda2
	label=ntfsnt
	table=/dev/sda