From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; netcompass) Description of problem: How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a windows NT installation in primary partition(c: FAT16) 2.Install Linux. Choose to partition the available space 3.Now boot through NT Actual Results: NT crashes Expected Results: Nt should have come up. Additional info:
Any hdd/partition layout details available? Where did you install LILO? What type of crash? When exactly?
I have 20 GB HDD. /dev/hda1 - (2.1GB) FAT partition where NT is installed. /dev/hda2 - (8 GB) FAT partition Rest around 9 GB remain unpartitioned. I installed Linux on this unpartitioned space. Created following partitions - /, /boot, /home,/usr,/usr/local, /var, /tmp. At the LILO configuration step - chose Skip LILO configuration and created a boot diskette. After that , I am able to boot through the boot floppy. Now , when I boot without floppy, the machine boots trhough NT and when it reaches, blue screen of OS loading, it crashes there.
I can't explain why this would happen. The installer doesn't write anything at all to the FAT partitions. I haven't seen this happen before, and we test dual-booting pretty regularly.
Actually, the problem was bacause of NT service packs. You need to have at least service pack 3. Thank you all for your efforts.