dual-boot win2k/red hat issues

[wildguy2k]

i have successfully installed win2k & red hat onto mockingbird (see signature). win2k resides on a fat32 partition (/dev/hdb1), which is followed by the redhat boot partition (/dev/hdb2), the root partition (/dev/hdb5) & the swap (/dev/hdb6).

i have installed LILO to the 1st sector of the boot partition, & copied the boot image into the root directory of my win2k partition (c:\). i have modified the "linux.bin/bootsect.lnx" file (depending on who's directions i followed) so that it is now a system file, & modified "boot.ini" so that the last line points ntloader to the said linux boot image in the c:\ directory.

i have followed directions from the following articles:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~jomstead/
http://classes.monterey.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html
http://www.geocities.com/johnlenin1/dual_boot.html
http://windows2000.about.com/cs/dualboot/
& an article from littlewhitedog.com

bottom line: i have to use a boot disk to get into redhat. selecting the option in the ntloader will result in a series of binary code running down the screen until i hit ctrl+alt+del. booting into win2k using ntloader works fine & booting into redhat using the boot floppy works fine, too.

any help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

 

[richierich]

try this... you need to become a member to view though.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article...01.htm&fromtm=e101-6&_requestid=98549

 

[stingbandel]

Why don't you use boot from MBR instead of first sector of the boot partition? I think if you use the first boot sector, you won't be able to choose with O/S you want to run when you turn on your system. It has to be install to the MBR one not the first sector one. I am not pro with Linux, but I did this with RH before so you might want to ask other people's comment but if you could try the MBR, I think it would solve your problem.



Darno