NT boot loader

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demitrix · Post by **demitrix** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:35 am

if one were to use the NT boot loader and point it to a gentoo boot partition like so

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)="Gentoo"

would it be able to boot gentoo?

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:55 am

Nope. But you can chainload lilo per nt bootloader.

demitrix · Post by **demitrix** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:52 am

no good windows is on raid which requires drivers

guard0 · Post by **guard0** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:09 am

i saw a way to boot linux using the nt bootloader a few years ago..

cwt137 · Post by **cwt137** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:37 pm

This is how i setup my nt boot loader to boot linux:

1. load your linux boot loader (lilo or grub) in the partition that has /boot. mine is /dev/hda2

2. i ran this command to copy the boot loader to a file:
dd if=/dev/hda of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1

3. copy the linux.bin file that was just created from linux to the root of the c:\ drive.

4. add this line to the boot.ini file: c:\linux.bin="Gentoo"

demitrix · Post by **demitrix** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:45 pm

that only works wen linux and windows are on teh same drive