From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Jan 03 1999 - 23:43:10 EST
On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:35:07 -0600, Richard E. Robbins wrote:
>I have configured a Thinkpad 701C with Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (service
>pack 3) as well as RedHat Linux 5.2.
>
>The machine has a 4 gig disk partitioned to include four partitions. The
>first partition is a smallish Linux partition and includes /boot. The
>second partition is an NTFS partition with a bit less than 2 Gig that
>contains NT. The third partition is a similarly sized Linux partition that
>contains the balance of the Linux file system. The fourth partition is a
>Linux swap partition.
>
>The partitions were created with the current version of Partition Magic.
>The NTFS seems OK to NT's Disk Administrator tool. The Linux partitions
>don't seem to be problematic either.
>
>I use the NT loader with an entry for Linux. LILO is installed on the
>partition containing /boot.
>
>On several occasions I have gotten an error about corrupt or missing files
>(NTOSLDR perhaps?) when booting the system. The NT Emergency Repair Disk
>cures the problem. I can't replicate the error. The system has been shut
>down normally, either from Linux or NT, in each instance.
NT OS loader is kinda strange, although I haven't seen problems like that before.
If you had the time, you might want to start over, and have a Boot Manager partition (actually,
since you have Partition Magic, keep the NT partition), make a big Linux partition, and have an
extended/logical partition for swap.
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