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Dual-Boot WinNT / RedHat 8.1 - Agh! - It went wrong, what to do!?!

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Superwormy

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UPDATE - Agh it went wrong! what do I do???

The RedHat installation went fine, and I got NT added to Grub ( the boot loader thingy ) so that when I choose to boot NT I get the NT OS chooser thingy, then I choose NT, it runs NT Detect then... BOOM, I get this message:

The following file is missing or corrupt:
<winnt root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

What do I do!?!


Also, know that its not a problem at all to pull the HD out and put in another NT machine, so if I need to copy files from the NT CD or somtehing, I can do that, or edit the NT files, whatever. Just please help!



Dual-Boot WinNT / RedHat 8.1

Is there an easy way to do this? I already have partitions set up as follows, WinNT is installed and working, I just wanna get RedHat on there too. I don't have a floppy drive so hopefully I can do it without a floppy drive...?


500mb - FAT16 ( nothing on it except a few WinNT boot files, boot.ini, ntldr )
4gb - NTFS - Windows NT 4.0
4gb - blank - want to put RedHat on it


Easy way to do so?
Thanks
 
Did you by any chance install RH on the NT partition by mistake?
Sounds like something like that happened.

Oh and by the way, you mean RedHat 8.0, right?
 
Sorry yes, meant 8.0

And I'm pretty sure I didn't install on top of the exsisting NT partition... I'm sure that I told Redhat to leave exsisting partitions alone...

Any ideas?
 
Well, I don't have any RH8 boxes available, but there's a tool somewhere in the default RedHat desktop that's called "Hardware browser" or something like that.
It will let you have a look at your HD's and the partitions on them, make sure the NTFS/FAT partitions are still there.
 
FOR THE RECORD, and for anyone else who has this problem and reads this, RedHat has a nasty habit of changing the partition labels.

Your best bet is the mount the NT partition and edit boot.ini, changing it to a diff. partition label. Then it'll work again.
 
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