On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Using LILO on the MBR desire having Win95, ugh, on /dev/hda1; Dos6.2
> on /hda2; Linux2.0.xx on /dev/hda3 and Swap on /hda4. HD plenty big
> for this.. System board is fairly new - P166, PCI, Award, or K5-100,
> PCI, Award, etc...
> Linux and ONE of the M$ o/s's no problem but can't get the scheme to
> work with Win95 AND Dos6.2.. Either one or the other, but not both..
> A couple of flavours of Unix OK, of course.. Is it the BIOS or M$??
BIOS has a limit when it comes to booting. This means it can't
boot partitions that start after the 1024 cylinder. I'm not sure if this
was't corrected.
One way to solve your problem will be to install dos on the
dos/win partiton first. Than install windoze. This way you'll have an
option at windoze boot time (press F8) to boot the old dos version (with
its settings as well!). This has two problems: one you use one partition
- not two like you wanted. And second m$ has a problem with other clons.
This means you can do that only using msdos. If you try to use Caldera
OpenDOS (DrDOS now) or FreeDOS this won't work. I tested this.
Another way, but this is just an idea of mine - I never thought
about this configuration - will be to use an empty hard drive. Than you
will use those Linux boot/root disks. Than you will
do the fdisk part - partition the drive the way you want it.
Eventually install Linux. But the
first partition (the windoze one) set it as other partition type (linux
swap for example). And set the second partition as dos. Should I add
that is better to have these partitions primary. Boot a dos floppy and
format that second partion (format c: /s). Than you install the stuff
you want for dos (like the utilities from c:\dos). And reenter fdisk.
At this moment you will set the
first partition as dos. Reboot the dos boot disk. If you have the cdrom
drives (so you can see the cdrom drive from dos) you can start the setup
from the windoze cd and install win.
This way is based on the assumption that dos/win are so dumb that
will see the first 'dos' primary partition as the drive C: no matter what.
But it might not work because the Master Boot Record is only one per hard
drive. And m$ products have the bad habbit of rewriting the MBR as if
they were the only OSs available for a PC.
In order to boot any of the three partitions you will have to set
lilo so it can boot any of them. And also set those partitions as
bootable (fdisk). You should install lilo on a floppy not in the MBR
because the MBR will get rewrited by the dos setup.
In case this doesn't work this is a third way of solving this
problem, but if you don't use pirate CDs it won't be cheap. Because you
can have dos/nt/linux. For this there is a howto.
> Perhaps it's impossible and no sweat as it's only temporary until I
> can get XWindows/Netscape working, then Win95 will be shelfware.. (My
> wife needs Dos6.2 for some ancient favourites.)
One question: those dos6.x favorites can't work even if you select
'restart in msdos mode' from the shutdown menu (the third one)?
Raider
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