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Dual Boot Linux RH6.2 & NT4 Server(SCSI)

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by shanghai sam

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I have a PentiumIII with two HD's SCSI where in the first I installed the LINUX and in the second I have a NT 4 Server installed and working. Of course I can change the boot order in the SCSI HD's by reselecting a new ID by straping the ID of the HDod desired OS as the minor one.

But I'm looking for a way to manage the dual boot whitout the need of straping the HD's and I prefer to be able to choose the OS to boot with a menu like the NT's menu or GRUB in LINUX.

I tried to use the NT's menu to boot but I had the problem to generate the bootsect.lnx when booting in the LINUX because it directs to /dev/sda1 as a bootable partition and when I boot through NT, the LINUX is in the second HD (/dev/sda2).

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem using any kind of boot manager in the LINUX or in the NT?

I'm very gratefull beforehand for the solution

Paulo Keglevich
keglevich@acm.org

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by Member 33827999

U tried the NT boot loader now try lilo.conf

Since LINUX is the first drive, let the system boot from it

Mount UR second disk as a NTFS volume

in /etc/lilo.conf put a section called
other=/dev/sda2
label=nt

run lilo -v

I assume this should solve UR problem

Warm Regards
Arun Solomon

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