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by mehdiraza78

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Sir
i have a P-IV desktop machine.
It has windows 98 and windows 2000 Installed on it with windows 2000 it's default boot.
I installed Linux RedHat 7.1 on it and the installation was Partition less i.e i installed it on an existing FAT Partition of 10GB.
First The LILO Choice did not appeared in my installation.
2nd Since, win2k supports Dual boot,so i made few changes in the boot.ini(Source:LinuxQuestions.org) so that Linux will appear as one of choices in the boot.
Now when i go for Linux in Boot choices, it give the error of NTLDR missing.
kindly guide my in this regard

NONO

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by uffe.sommerlund

hmm sound like the Win 2000 is fucked up

install the Windows 2000 + Win again save the data, then create some extra partitions
under installation of linux use (existing partitions) find one of the emty partitions)
10GB disk split like this:

Var = 500 - 1000MB
boot = 100 - 300 MB
tmp = 1000 - 2000 MB
usr = 1000 - 2000 MB
/ = 500 MB
home rest

hope it helps

by m.mayberry

Go with answer #1. That site appears to have some good information, especially on this page:
http://www.benchtest.com/dual_nt_linux.html.
You should accept that answer.

Answer #2 is WAY off base. Windows 2000 is not broken. The Win2k boot process is expecting to find NTDLR because that's what your boot.ini is telling it. Your boot.ini needs something like C:\bootsect.lnx="redhat 7". The link above explains it pretty well. Anyone who suggests that you re-partition your hard drive and subsequently re-install 3 operating systems is a moron.

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