NTFS booting

[gafrancis]

I currently have w2k on a 80gig drive formatted ntfs. I know Linux doesn't have a problem booting when the drive's first partition is fat32, can you boot properly when it is ntfs. Resizing is easy enough but I didn't want to bother if I was going to have to reformat the whole thing fat32 anyway since you can't convert back from ntfs to fat.

[mdwatts]

I've never had problems using Grub to boot from a ntfs formatted partition even though the ntfs support was built as a module instead of being built statically into the kernel.

[jetblackz]

With NTFS, you can still use lilo... on another hd.

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/ConfiguringMultiBooting.html

[gafrancis]

I had tried one other time about 3 kernels ago and it just wouldn't go. It could have been I just had installed it improperly or Jupiter might have been aligned with the 3rd moon of Saturn in the first house of Bill Gates' pocketbook, dunno.

Thanks for your help at least if it fails I know it was my incompetence. :)

[sab23]

Originally posted by gafrancis
I know Linux doesn't have a problem booting when the drive's first partition is fat32, can you boot properly when it is ntfs.

I really would recommend making the first partition of your primary master your /boot partition.

Otherwise, no, it makes no difference what the partion is. The parition could be complete garbage as far as the bootloader is concened.