On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions > which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot > partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you > intend to use dosemu from linux. Two solutions are suggested by this. One
So, as far as you understand (I do not know either), dosemu cannot access a partition which has LILO installed on it. However, you cannot install LILO into a DOS partition. For example, if your /dev/hda1 is DOS, you cannot install LILO into it -- DOS requires the boot sector (where LILO is located) for disk information, and your DOS partition will be inaccessible if you install LILO on it. You can install it into /dev/hda (the master boot record), and this might cause problems with DOSEMU *if* you told DOSEMU to give the whole disk to DOSEMU, which you probably don't want to do. You can always mount the partitions under Linux and lredir them to DOS drive letters. I recently moved a DOS server machine to run under DOSEMU, by plugging in the hard drive, mounting the partitions under Linux, and setting up a boot disk for dos to boot from. This works fine. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .