Horty Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Hi all. For about 3 months now, I have dual booted XP and Mandrake 10 OE using Lilo as installed in the MBR of my primary drive. Recently I had cause to boot the Mdk recovery CD in order to make changes to lilo.conf and subsequently reinstall lilo. Upon rebooting and selecting windows from within lilo, instead of staring at the ntloader, I was faced with a blinking cursor on the top left of the screen. I was able to restore ntloader with no hassles, but this meant overwriting lilo. Is there a workaround or fix to this issue? I've done a bit of googling on it, but haven't turned up much. Regards, Horty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EwanKho Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Maybe you could try this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Thanks guys. Thats actually how I am booting Mandrake at the moment. (Using grub on the Linux partition). My main reason for the post was because I am adding Suse 9.2, and I assumed it would be easier to add another boot option to lilo / grub if they were in the MBR. Or can you boot two LInux distros from Ntloader? Horty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In other words the ntloader willonly take one linux. If you know otherwise please let us know! [edit] a friend has successfully added 3 of 4 distros......no idea why I couldn't. No big deal because if you can get one linux to boot from the ntldr then you can boot the other linux's from it. I was able to later, with other distros. I never figured out why I couldn't that time though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 bvc, I'm assuming its a case of making up a bootsect.lnx for the second distro, copying to a different folder on the primary drive to that of the first distro's bootsect.lnx, and telling ntloader where to find it. Or does bootsect have to be on the root folder of the primary drive/partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 to be honest, I don't recall what I did to get it to work with other distros, and I do not boot this way any longer. I use BootMagic which is ntldr friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well, it certainly has to be in the root directory (just found out by trial and error). I noticed from a bit of googling that names different to bootsect.lnx have been used, so i'll try those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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