> local HD installation, and I am now booting linux from LOADLIN.EXE which is
> extremely surreal, because the Windows 95 blue-sky screen comes up and then
> suddenly is replaced by Linux character-mode boot stream. (Thanks Marvin
> Stodolsky for nudging me in that direction).
I just read the message about using LOADLIN.EXE today. I hadn't realized it
was an option. I don't know anything about writing Windowns config.sys files,
and I'm curious: using this solution, how do you choose which OS to boot
(Linux or Win9x)? Is it the same kind of hit a key within 5 seconds thing?
I've always wanted a boot loader that would (or was configurable to) wait
indefinitely until I made an OS selection. I don't like having to sit there
and wait through the reboot so I don't miss the 5 second opportunity to hit
the right key when I'm booting into the non-default OS.
(The old NEXTSTEP 3.2/Intel had a great system that let you choose whether
to reboot into NEXTSTEP or DOS/Windows when you started the reboot. A
generalized version of that is what all the OSes need. Not gonna happen
anytime soon though. Oh well.)
-Karl
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