Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50337
Anaconda and NT?
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:17 EDT
Hi! My question is rather general and does not only concern RH7.1 but concerns also the previous releases. Why a NTFS partition (NT4 or W2k) does not show up during the Lilo configuration during the installation Anaconda? At home I have a Fat32 Windows 98 partition which is seen at once by Anaconda and added to the list of OSes Lilo can boot. Here at work I have 2 machines with disks: Disk 1 (SCSI or EIDE, same problem) : Windows NT (4 and W2k) Disk 2 : RedHat 7.1 During the installation, the NTFS partition is never seen and I have to boot with a disquette (I am not a lilo.conf guru and I DON'T WANT TO BE... I have had too many problems with it) because I want a Lilo with NT and Linux and nothing else. So, how can I modify my lilo.conf file and... why is NTFS not seen by Anaconda? Daniel
The partitioning detection code in 7.1 didn't always identify NTFS partitions correctly. We have completely replaced this code for the next version of Red Hat Linux. Also, we use the GRUB bootloader by default in the next version, and it seems to be much better at handling NTFS partitions. The installer will now detect NTFS partitions and present them in the bootloader configuration screen. These new features are available in the public beta(Roswell) we released a few days ago. Having said that, that doesn't help your current situation much. I think if you were to add a section to your lilo.conf file, it may allow you to boot NT. Add a section to the end of your lilo.conf file that looks like: other=/dev/hda1 label=winNT table=/dev/hda Of course, the above assumes that you are using IDE drives with NT on the first partition. For your SCSI drives, try: other=/dev/sda1 label=winNT table=/dev/sda Let me know if that works for you. We received a number of these complaints, so we have addressed these issues for future releases.