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valium drug NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO Bernd Reichert, v1.11, 2 September 1997 1. Abstract valium drug This document describes the use of the Windows NT boot l valium drug ader to start Linux. This procedures have been tested valium drug ith Windows NT 4.0 WS and Linux 2.0. 2. How does the valium drug T OS Loader work The NT OS loader likes to have the boo valium drug sector from the other operating systems available as a valium drug file. It reads this file and starts the operating syste valium drug selected, i.e. either Windows NT in different Modes or valium drug any other OS. 3. Tips on how to install Windows NT and valium drug Linux on the same System 3.1. Windows NT installation valium drug Try to install Windows NT first. If you want to use NTFS valium drug for your Windows NT-partition, keep in mind, that the t valium drug days production version of Linux cannot access NTFS par valium drug itions. An alpha driver that can read NTFS-Partitions valium drug s available at http://www.informatik.hu- berlin.de/~loe valium drug is/ntfs. You may create a separate FAT-Partition for d valium drug ta exchange or you have to use DOS-formatted floppies. valium drug .2. Partitioning Another Mini-howto recommends not to valium drug se NTs "Disk Administartor" to create the Linux swap- a valium drug d root-partitions. It is sufficient to see the free spa valium drug e there. I also recommend to use linux's fdisk later. 3 valium drug 3. Linux installation Now boot linux from diskettes, c valium drug eate the swap and root-partition. Fdisk assumes the ntf valium drug -partition to be a HPFS-partition. This is normal. Bo valium drug t again from diskettes and install Linux as you like. J valium drug st in case the installation procedure suggests that you valium drug ould mount the HPFS partition which it has found: Ignor valium drug it. 3.4. Lilo When you come to the Lilo-Section, spe valium drug ify your Linux-root-partition as your boot device becau valium drug e the Master Boot Record (MBR) of your harddisk is owne valium drug by Windows NT. This means that the root-entry and the valium drug oot-entry in your /etc/lilo.conf have the same value. I valium drug you have a IDE-harddisk and your Linux-partition is th valium drug second partition, your boot-entry in /etc/lilo.conf lo valium drug ks like: boot=/dev/hda2 If you have two disks and valium drug your Linux resides on the first partition of your secon valium drug disk, your boot-entry in /etc/lilo.conf looks like: valium drug boot=/dev/hdb1 Run lilo with a kernel that matches yo valium drug r system. Check the kernel by booting from diskette fi valium drug st if you are not sure. If you cannot boot Windows NT n valium drug w, you have a problem. I hope you have created a repai valium drug -disk recently. 4. Bootpart There is a NT-programm ca valium drug led bootpart written by G. Vollant that can do the jobs valium drug from the next two points for you. Bootpart is available valium drug t http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/boo valium drug part.htm. If you want to know how things are working to valium drug ether, use the procedures described in point 5 and 6. valium drug . The Linux part of the work You have to boot from dis valium drug ettes until the NT-part is fixed. Now you have to peel the bootsector from your Linux-root-Partition. With /dev/hda2 as your linux-partition, the dd-command is: # dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 There is something wrong if your bootsect.lnx has more than 512 bytes. Now copy the file bootsect.lnx to a DOS-formated floppy if this is your way to transfer files to the NTFS-Windows-partition. You can copy it with # mcopy /bootsect.lnx a: or with # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt # copy /bootsect.lnx /mnt # umount /mnt 6. The Windows NT part of the work Copy the file from the diskette to C:\\bootsect.lnx. I don't tell you how to do that. Wh
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