Re: win98 doesn't boot after Gnome install!!!

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

That's fine. Beware though should you try and upgrade.
The problem is neither SuSE nor lilo, it is NT (newer versions, older
versions have been a bit more slack).

NT checks the mbr for modifications (numerous reason: viruses, break in
attempts ...)
and will refuse to cooperate if it has been tempered with.
I would not advice trying out the suggested set up unless you are
willing to take the usual risks of scraping everything afterwards. It
might work, but you stand a fair chance it doesn´t

Using a boot disk has nothing to do with being clever or not it just
saves you tremendous hassle at times.

Sorry for continuing the off topic thread - but this was a bit imprecise
and needed clarification.


Jan



"Peter C. Norton" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 11:42:31AM +0100, Jan Gentsch wrote:
> > Very Important!!!
> > This does not work with NT!!
> 
> Says you.  My NT partition works fine by installing lilo on the MBR of
> my first drive and having lilo load either linux or the NT loader.
> The NT loader looks just like a DOS partition to lilo.  What problems
> does the SuSE installation bring up that is worrisome?
> 
> > You need to use the NT boot-loader to boot NT.
> > There is information on how to set this up in the SuSE installation
> > manual.
> > It also states that though this method works it is very inconvenient to
> > use,
> > so a boot disk might be the best method after all.
> 
> I've never resorted to a boot disk.
> 
> Sorry for continuing the off-topic thread - but this was false.
> 
> -Peter