On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Neil T. wrote:
> Steve-thanks for info and did the fdisk/mbr and drdos etc and my machine
> boots the way it did before. I then went and edited the lilo.conf and
> got the list back at boot, but it does not open up in just dos (I added
> drdos to the list and it is there along with linux and dos (which opens
> W98). I have drdos in the c: drive....do I need to do something else or
> make some other line in the lilo.conf to specify the command for drdos?
> When it gets right down to it, I can live with using the boot disk to
> start right up in Arachne, but it would be nice not to mess with the
> disks.
Lilo writes boot info on the master boot record.
The info it writes there for your machine to boot
to DOS is that it needs to look at the FAT present
on /dev/hda1 and then boot to whatever default
image is pointed to from there.
As long as you have your boot image listed as
table = /dev/hda in lilo.conf for both of them, then
both entries accomplish the same thing. Changing the
label entry only changes the command you enter at the
LILO prompt and its attendant "menu" when you hit TAB.
In order to get DR-DOS and Win98 separately bootable
from lilo, you'd have to figure out the boot sequence of
Win98 and how it differs from DOS.
Since I know almost nothing of the workings of W'98,
I'll have to leave that to someone else.
