George Georgakis wrote:

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> reh <someone@somewhere.com> wrote:
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>> Windows: you will need the 512byte file from the SW partition
>> added to the boot.ini file to 'jump' to the the SW partition to
>> continue booting.
>
> For various reasons I gave up posting extensive help to AOLS a long
> time ago. But in the inebriated spirit of Christmas here's a run-
> through of what's actually involved in reh's statement.
>
> Assuming a dual boot with either NT, W2K or WXP (9x doesn't use
> boot.ini):
>
> Ensure that lilo has been installed to the PARTITION and NOT to the
> MBR. This run-through will NOT work with the latter. If you've
> already installed to the MBR, use either "lilo -u" under Linux or
> "fdisk /mbr" under Windows to restore it to its original condition.
>
> As root, at the Slackware command prompt:
>
> # dd if=/dev/hda2 of=slakboot.sla bs=512 count=1
>
> Replace /dev/hda2 in this example with the partition containing the
> /boot directory of your Slackware installation.
>
> If using a FAT Windows filesystem, you can mount the C:\ drive and
> copy the slakboot.sla file directly. Assuming Windows is on the
> (typical) /dev/hda1 partition:
>
> # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd
> # cp slakboot.sla /mnt/hd
> # umount /mnt/hd
>
> If you are using NTFS, DON'T do it this way. NTFS write support
> under Linux remains flaky at best. Instead, insert a floppy, and
> (if mtools are installed):
>
> # mcopy slakboot.sla a:
>
> If no mtools are installed, instead do the following:
>
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> # cp slakboot.sla /mnt/floppy
> # umount /mnt/floppy
>
> Reboot, log into Windows as Administrator and copy the slakboot.sla
> file from floppy to your drive. This file contains Linux partition
> information. For simplicity, I'll assume that the file is copied
> to the root C:\ directory. Add the following line to C:\boot.ini:
>
> C:\slakboot.sla ="Slackware Linux 9.1"
>
> And that's it. Season's greetings and all that.
>
> - --
> George Georgakis-geeg AT tripleg net au-http://www.tripleg.net.au/
> SlackBuild Central - http://slackpack.tripleg.net.au/
>

Excellent walk through. Where where you many years ago when I needed
this!

--
robert - redhat & slackware