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From: Greg Hammett <Hammett@pppl.gov>
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To Mr. Reichert, and to the Red Hat Documentation Group:

I've successfully set up dual booting of Red Hat Linux 7.0 and Windows NT
2000, and found Mr. Reichert's instructions at

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html

to be very helpful.  However it did take me a few hours to figure out one
issue, which it would be helpful to clarify in your notes.  

There is a reference to this web page in the installation notes in the Red
Hat Reference Guide, RefGuide(EN)-7.0-HTML-RHI (2000-07-31T12:19-0400),
specifically onthe page:

http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/ref-guide/s1-guimode-lilo-conf.html

******************************

In the page

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader-5.html

where it says at present:

*******************************

Now you have to peel the bootsector from your Linux-root-Partition. With
/dev/hda2 as your linux-partition, the dd-command is:

      # dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

*******************************

It should be replaced with:

*******************************

Now you have to peel the bootsector from your Linux-root-Partition. 
If your linux boot partition is /dev/hda2, which would mean that the file 
/etc/lilo.conf contains the line: 

boot=/dev/hda2

then you would use the command:

      # dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

*******************************

The original wording is misleading because LILO is usually placed in the
first sector of the Linux BOOT partition, which is usually a separate
partition (with the mount point "/boot") from the Linux ROOT partition
(which has the mount point "/").

I would also change all references to /bootsect.lnx on that page to
/tmp/bootsect.lnx (I think it is a good policy not to write any files to
the root directory).

A corrected version of the page

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader5.html

can be found at

http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/linux/WindowsNT/Linux+NT-Loader-5-corrected.html

Thanks,

Greg

Greg Hammett
Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory