Ot:win2k install issues

[Alex Snow]

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.

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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
>
>
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