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Now try to boot from the diskette. If your Linux on /dev/hdb1 can't be started, the NT OS loader will also fail to start it. If you see a lot of 01 01 01 01, your root- disk is not accessible. Check whether all your disks are known by the bios. If the floppy boots your Linux partition, you can peel of your boot- sector for the NT O
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