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-Win95 + WinNT + Linux multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO
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-!!!Win95 + WinNT + Linux multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO
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-!!Renzo Zanelli, rzanelli@southeast.netv1., 26 March 1998
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-''This document describes how to use the to multiboot between Windows 95,
-Windows NT, and Linux.''
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-!!1. Introduction
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-!!2. Installing the Operating Systems
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-*2.1 Installing Windows 95
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-!!3. The Linux part
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-!!4. The Windows NT part
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-!!5. The Windows 95 part
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-!!6. References
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-!!1. Introduction
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-There are a number of documents available that describe in detail how to
-multiboot just about any number of OS's using NT's OS loader. When I
-finally bought Windows NT, I already had Windows 95 and Linux installed
-on my system and I was using LILO to multiboot between them. I decided
-to add Windows NT to LILO instead of using NT's OS loader.
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-Originally I had Windows 95 on my first IDE disk drive and Linux on my
-second IDE disk drive. The Linux drive became my third IDE drive and I
-installed a new IDE disk for Windows NT as my second drive. Even though
-I haven't tried this in different configurations, I believe the order
-with which each OS is installed or which drive it is installed on is
-unimportant.
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-Just remember to create those emergemcy bootup floppies when each OS
-prompts you to!
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-Because I used Gilles Vollant's !BootPart utility and !BootPart only
-supports drives up to 4GB in size, this may not work if you have drives
-of larger capacity. If you need to work with drives greater than 4GB,
-contact Gilles directly (see !BootPart documentation for Gilles' e-mail
-address).
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-!!2. Installing the Operating Systems
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-When you install the OSes, make sure that all are installed on bootable
-partitions. I installed both Windows 95 and Windows NT on Fat 16
-partitions, so this procedure works on Fat 16 drives. If you decide to
-use Fat32 for Windows 95 and NTFS for Windows NT, check to see if your
-version of Linux supports them and, if so, to what extent.
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-!!2.1 Installing Windows 95
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-Install Windows 95 on your first drive. This will be your C: drive.
-Remember to create the Windows 95 boot floppies when prompted to do so.
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-I have found that it is better if the Linux drive is removed from the
-system when installing Windows 95, so that it is never detected and it
-doesn't exist as far as Windows 95 is concerned.
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-At this point, if you did everything correctly, you should be able to
-boot Windows 95.
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-!Installing Windows NT 4.
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-Install Windows NT 4.0 on your second drive. When you create the
-partition on this drive, make the partition bootable. Not all versions
-of Linux support NTFS, so I created a FAT16 partition, just to be on the
-safe side and because I wanted to exchange data between the Windows
-drives.
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-When Windows NT installs, it will detect the presence of Windows 95 and
-will create an entry for it in the NT OS loader and you should see three
-entries in the OS loader menu as follows:
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-Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00
-Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00
[[VGA mode
]
-Microsoft Windows
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-At this point, if you did everything correctly, you should be able to
-multiboot to Windows NT and Windows 95.
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-!Installing Linux
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-Install Linux on your third drive. When I installed Linux, I only had
-Windows 95 installed so I only added the Windows 95 partition to Lilo.
-You can go ahead and install all OSes while installing LILO, or edit the
-Lilo configuration file later. However you decide to do it, I will show
-you how the /etc/lilo.conf file is supposed to look in the next section.
-Once Linux is installed, you should be able to boot to Linux.
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-!!3. The Linux part
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-This will involve editing the /etc/lilo.conf file and reinstalling LILO.
-The following should already be present in /etc/lilo.conf:
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-boot=/dev/hda
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-The Linux stanza should also be already present:
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-# Linux stanza
-image=/vmlinuz
-root=/dev/hdc1
-label=Linux
-# End Linux stanza
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-Now add the Windows 95 stanza:
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-# Windows 95 stanza
-other=/dev/hda1
-table=/dev/hda
-label=Windows95
-# End Windows 95 stanza
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-Now add the Windows NT stanza:
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-# Windows 95 stanza
-other=/dev/hdb1
-table=/dev/hda
-loader=/boot/any_d.b
-label=WindowsNT
-# End Windows 95 stanza
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-Now run LILO again. At this point, if all is well, you should have
-Windows 95, Windows NT, and Linux as selections from LILO. You should
-be able to boot to Linux and Windows 95 (which should give you the
-Windows NT OS loader). To make the Windows NT entry operational, you
-still need to do some work on the Windows NT side.
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-!!4. The Windows NT part
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-Before you can continue, you need two do two things.
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-The first is to download and unzip Gilles Vollant's !BootPart utility
-which can be found at
-http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
-with some information on how to use it.
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-The second thing to do is copy (do not delete them yet!) the following
-files to the root of the Windows NT drive:
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-Boot.ini
-Bootsect.dos
-Ntdetect.com
-Ntldr
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-These files are the Windows NT loader. They are located in the root of
-the Windows 95 drive and were placed there by Windows NT when you
-installed it.
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-Once this is done, boot to the Windows 95 DOS prompt (press Shift+F5
-when Windows 95 loads) and issue the following command:
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-BOOTPART WINNT BOOT:D:
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-Now you must edit Boot.ini in your Windows NT root directory. You must
-edit three lines, one in the [[boot loader] section and two in the
-[[operating systems] section.
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-This is the original Boot.ini:
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-[[boot loader]
-timeout=30
-default=multi()disk()rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
-[[operating systems]
-multi()disk()rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
-multi()disk()rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
-C:\ = "Microsoft Windows"
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-This is the new Boot.ini:
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-[[boot loader]
-timeout=30
-default=multi()disk()rdisk()partition(1)\WINNT
-[[operating systems]
-multi()disk()rdisk()partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
-multi()disk()rdisk()partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
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-Notice that all instances of rdisk(1) have been changed to rdisk() and
-the line referencing Windows 95 has been removed.
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-After saving Boot.ini, if you did everything correctly, you should now
-be able to boot to Windows NT from LILO.
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-!!5. The Windows 95 part
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-Create a bootable DOS floppy from the Windows 95 DOS prompt (press
-Shift+F5 when Windows 95 loads). It is important that this floppy be
-created at the DOS prompt, not from a DOS window inside Windows95! Do
-not boot to Windows95 until this step is complete! Copy the file
-C:\WINDOWS95\COMMAND\SYS.COM to the floppy (substitute your Windows95
-path if different). Now boot from the floppy and enter the command:
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-SYS C:
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-This should have removed the Windows NT OS loader and you should be able
-to boot directly into Windows 95 from LILO.
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-You can now remove the NT loader files:
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-Boot.ini
-Bootsect.dos
-Ntdetect.com
-Ntldr
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-!!6. References
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-Thanks to the following people (in no particular order):
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-James C. Bevier & D. Michael !McFarland. In a message exchange on the
-reddhat-list they provided some information on how to boot NT from
-Linux.
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-Gilles Vollant. !BootPart is a very useful utility and Gilles makes it
-available for free with some nice documentation. Thanks Gilles.
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-Mike Harlan. By reading his 'Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2' mini-HOWTO, it helped
-me make some assumptions about LILO's behavior
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