Hi. I'm starting to think that I set the wrong partition bootable. I'll fix that when I can get some sited assistance around here... I have never installed win2k. just 3.1, 95, 98, dos 5, and of course linux. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Doug wrote: > Alex, > > Win2k uses the NT boot loader (ntldr). This loader can > handle multiple boots itself. My systems are set up to > be triple boot DOS, Win2k, and linux. The NT loader > displays a menu to select DOS or windows, and Win2k > saves boot sectors for each of those. > > There might be a problem with NT loader. Did you change > the "bootable" flag in the partition configuration? I > think that windows wants only one partition to be > flagged as bootable. Win2k will put the NT loader there. > It doesn't have to be the win2k partition. On my system, > it places NT loader in the DOS partition. > > So my questions would be these: > > 1) If you look at the partition info, which partition > is marked as bootable? Is there only one? > > 2) Do a search for the file boot.ini. This is the menu > that NT loader uses. You can edit this menu to add > or change new bootable images. You can even add > linux if you copy the boot sector over to the > windows partition and refer to it in boot.ini. > > 3) What is sitting in your master boot record? > Is it LILO? Or is LILO loaded in the super block > of your linux partition? > > It is normal for Win2k to require the reboot. It does > an initial phase where it selects a kernel, copies > some temp files over, saves some config info, then > asks you to reboot. On the next boot, it should run > NT loader, and should proceed with the install. But > it has to find and load the NT loader. On my system > I had to add that to LILO, because LILO sits in the > MBR (master boot record). > > If LILO is in the MBR, then what did you put in the > lilo.conf for windows? On my system, I don't refer > to the Win2k partition, because NT loader is not > there, it's in the DOS partition. Perhaps Win2k put > the ntloader in the Win98 partition. Search for the > files boot.ini and ntldr. Make sure your boot loader > points to the partition where these reside. I hate > to say it but win2k isn't that bad ... > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
