Re: Updating lilo win 2000 boot.ini SOLUTION

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:05:16 GMT

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On 8 Aug 2004 06:50:21 -0700, John Culleton wrote:

 Problem solved. turns out LILO resides in the bootsect and when I
 copied the bootsect of /hda2 to /hda1 that was before lilo was
 updated. So I stripped lilo.conf down to just the Linux partition and
 made the wait time 30 instead of the default 300.

 Here is the rest of the drill:
 1. Make /hda2 the boot partition via cfdisk.
 2. Run lilo
 3. "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1"
 4. Copy the file bootsect.lnx to the /hda1 partition, either directly
 (fat partition) or indirectly via floppy (ntfs partition.)
 5. boot Linux via floppy and make /hda1 the boot partition via cfdisk.
 6. Edit the file on /hda1 boot.ini to include a line for Linux. I
 edited mine directly from Linux via Vim, but if ntfs is in play one
 has to boot Windows,
 "attrib -r boot.ini", edit the file and "attrib +r boot.ini"

 Here is my Windows boot.ini:
=========================================================
 [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="Microsoft Windows 2000
 Professional" /fastdetect
 C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
 NTFS" /fastdetect
 ==========================================================
 I have two Windows partitions (one fat, one ntfs) and I made the fat
 one on hda1 the default. (I may experiment with making Linux the
 default.)
 I put the Linux boot line second on the list.

 I still get an error message if I try to boot windows 2k via lilo.
 Hence the above lashup.

 John c.

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