[CLUE-Tech] Stump the stiffs III: Wrecked MBRs

[Mike Staver]

I generally set up LILO so that I have all my different linux partitions
set up first, and then I have a windows partition set up in the
lilo.conf file.  On that windows partition, I set it up so that the NT
boot loader has all the different windows versions in it. For example, I
once had 98 SE, 2k, and XP all set up in that bootloader file, all on
the same machine as Red Hat 7.2.  I had waaaayyy to many partitions and
hard drives in that thing :)

Lynn Danielson wrote:
> That could work with Windows 9x.  But if you're going to use lilo with
> NT/2K/XP, don't you need to use the NT boot loader?
> 
> According to the Linux+NT-Loader mini-howto you should:
> 
> 1) Set lilo boot option to the partition of your Linux root filesystem.
> 
> 2) Copy the first sector of that partition to a file, e.g.,
>     dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>       or copy the boot floppy
>     dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 
> 3) Copy that file to the Windows partition -- probably via a floppy.
> 
> 4) Change the attributes of the Windows boot config file so that it can
>     be edited, e.g., C:\attrib -s -r c:\boot.ini
> 
> 5) Add an entry to boot.ini for Linux, e.g. the last line of this stanza
> 
>         [boot loader]
>         timeout=30
>         default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
>         [operating systems]
>         multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ...
>         multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation ...
>         C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
> 
> 6) Reset the attributes --  C:\attrib +s +r c:\boot.ini
> 
> 7) Reboot Windows and select the Linux option
> 
> Lynn
> 
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                                -Mike Staver
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