Two things, one is that the /live directory on a Slackware factory
CD would be the live filesystem. As in, it wouldn't be readable by
Windows and it would crap out if you tried to copy it. It's not needed
anyway unless you are going with the Slackware try-before-you-buy method
of testing Linux before installing it.
Second is after this message:
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Karl Pfleger wrote:
> > 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.)
>
Theoretically you could work a dealy that you could change in Linux or
Windows by running a program/batch file/script to replace or edit the
config.sys. For example, you would have an autoexec.bat that would always
copy a 5 second timeout(boot either OS) config.sys over c:\config.sys.
Then you would have a program that could have a shortcut on the background
or menu in windows that would copy over a boot only Linux or boot only
Windows config.sys. The same would work for Linux, but more tricky. You
would need to mount the windows partition, then tweak the file. Not too
big a deal, but about 30 minutes of work.
This is unclear as I re-read it. Here we go:
windows partition:
config.default:
[boot Linux or Windows, 5-10 second timeout]
config.linux:
[boot only Linux, 0 second timeout]
config.windows:
[boot only Windows, 0 second timeout]
autoexec.bat:
copy config.default c:\config.sys /Y
bootlin.bat:
copy config.linux c:\config.sys /Y
bootwin.bat:
copy config.windows c:\config.sys /Y
Linux partition:
bootlin:
mount /dev/[windows_drive] /tmp
cp -f /tmp/config.linux /tmp/config.sys
umount /dev/[windows_drive]
bootwin:
mount /dev/[windows_drive] /tmp
cp -f /tmp/config.windows /tmp/config.sys
umount /dev/[windows_drive]
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
(don't delete your rc.sysinit, just add this code where appropriate)
mount /dev/[windows_drive] /tmp
cp -f /tmp/config.default /tmp/config.sys
umount /dev/[windows_drive]
---[ Please keep in mind that I am not running this this way, but I know
it will work, or at least come damn close. Also objects in brackets []
are fill in the blanks. config.default should be a config.sys that can
boot either Linux or windows with user response. Oopse.. it's late.
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