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Setting up Windows NT & Linux

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by jharcourt

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I have NT on the first hard drive (hda1)and Linux v6.2 red hat on another(hdc1) hard drive.
After I had installed red hat I can't access NT any longer and I tried the Red hat solution to have a dual O/S setup to no avail. But I must be doing something wrong here.i have edited 'lilo' configuration file and it looks good according to Red Hats solution and my manual.But No go.
It doesn't even prompt me to boot NT either.
So I think I have to reinstall everything??
Thanks!

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by lo

Hi - You don't get prompted directly in LILO. If you don't respond in N seconds, it boots to the default. I think if you enter ? or any value not a valid OS to the LILO prompt you will get the 'other' OS you can boot. If you don't get anything beside Linux then ... Forget the specifics (haven't booted Linux for 3-4 months and I scratched the disks playing with other OS installs and such). If you have a manual check boot options. I know this works, I had Linux with my Win NT and another system with Linux, Win NT and Win 98 (from Win NT). lo

by rkeckler2000

You can not use lilo with Windows NT.
If you want to have both ( I do, on a laptop),
You must install Windows NT first, then install Linux.
DO NOT INSTALL LILO. (Uncheck the box for installing LILO on the install).
Go to http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
download the bootpart program. Use it to setup an option in the Windows NT boot loader for Linux. I works great and easy to use.

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