Booting Linux from NT workstation

[p24on10]

I want to boot Red Hat Linux 7.0 from a previously installed NT 4.0 workstation

I have partitioned my hard disk .

Partion 1 : hda1 ==> dos fat
Partion 2 : had2 ==> NT
Partion 3 : hda3 ==> Linux Native
Partion 4 : hda5 ==> Linux Swap

I have installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 in Partion 3 : hda3 ==> Linux Native.

I have installed LILO in the first section of Linux Native : hda3

MBR has the previous NT System Loader.

I have created a Boot disk for Linux.

I have made the Boot Sequence of my machine as A , CD-Rom, C.

Now when I am booting using the Linux boot disk, it is not loading Linux
, but instead of that it is Loading NT first.

I can not load Linux using the boot floppy also.

Please suggest.

 

[zallen]

Maybe you must find out another boot disk to boot into linux or you can use low level tool to do the same thing as below (i only test under lnux )

in linux
#dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

in NT copy the bootsect.lnx to c:modify the boot.ini file and append a line

linux=c:\bootsect.lnx (i forgot the exact format,but is is easy to understand)

then you can use NT osloader to load your linux!

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