I've been trying (desperately and apparently unsucessfully)
to follow this thread
NO!!! - it is NOT IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS !!!
IT IS CONFIG.SYS you must edit.
both io.sys and msdos.sys are binaries...
The config.sys you describe below may work for multibooting
DOS and WINDOWS.
loadlin.exe is a DOS executable that is run on startup as
specified in the config.sys. It in turn LOADs LINux kernel...
(that is specified to it as an argument) the root partiton is also
specified as an argument... When using lodlin.exe, when you
boot to linux, the autoexec.bat is not even read!
Consequences of the previous statement are that
DOS/WIN95/WIN98 MUST RULE the master boot record!
lilo has nothing to do with this
The alternate way of doing multiboot is to have linux rule the
MBR. then AND ONLY THEN do u use lilo for multiboot.
Frankly, I am mystifyed that any of what you have said below
actually works for multibooting linux and windows.
(Unless you use a floppy ) :)
Nobody is criticizing you. as I had mentioned in an email to
this list some time ago - there is more than 1 way to skin a
cat. however some things are just PLAIN WRONG!!
(Or akin to using a sledgehammer to kill an ant)
ps:
az all may have noticed, i've been compelled 2 use the queen's
english in xplaining - az it seems that some r not proficient with
the language - no - no appluaze plz... :)
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cristian wrote:
> Douglas Ort wrote:
> >
> > Cristian:
> >
> > Please send your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for some mistakes.
> Michael Trausch is right: it is the msdos.sys to edit and the name is
> loadlin without a final"e".
>
> I am not an expert to give advices, I only tell what I have done myself.
> I've heared (as I am not reading his messages) that a certain mr.
> "Rider" made a pourpouse of his life to criticise everything I mail on
> the list. Don't take this in account because it is a cosequence of a
> private argue we had in the past.
>
> Msdos.sys must have the following lines among others:
>
> [Options]
> BootMenu=0
> BootGUI=0
>
> Config.sys
>
> at the beggining all devices
> needed as HIMEM.sys, EMM386.exe, the device for the CD
> and then
>
> [menu]
> menuitem=dos,Charge DOS
> menuitem=win95,Charge Windows 95
> menudefault=win95,10 it means 10 second delay to decide
>
> [dos]
> devicehigh=c:\adisound\dos_util\AD1815.sys this is to have
> the sound card
>
> "here put the devices win 3.1 is
> installing"
> buffers=10
> files=50
> stacks=9,256
>
> [win95]
>
> Autoexec.bat
>
> first everything you have now except the path
>
> goto %config%
>
> :dos
> path C:\windows\command ;c:\dos;C:\win31 and what you need
> lh c:\widows\command\mscdex.exe/S/D:MTMIDE02/M:10 this is
> to have access to
> CD
> lh mouse
> lh nc to make Norton appear by default
> goto end
>
> :win95
> path c:\windows\command ;c:\dos;c:\windows
> win
>
> :end
>
> Notice that first I had dos 6.22, then I installed WIN95, then I made
> the above changes, then I installed win 3.11. Win 3.11 wanted to use the
> swap from WIN95 and it was locking. To make it work I had to cofigure
> win 3.11 with temporary swap.
>
> I didn't try win98 and more experienced people on the list said it won't
> work.
>
> In this way you use LILO for boot and choose between Linux and DOS.
> If you choose DOS you have 10sec to decide between Win95 and DOS.
> If you choose DOS you can have win3.11 by typeing win.
>
> If you want Linux in the same menu you add a third menuitem, but you
> have to use LOADLIN not LILO. I couldn't do it because it is necessary
> to make an initial ram disk with initrd and I am not so good yet. If you
> do it, please mail me.
>
> RedHat can be started with LOADLIN, not only Slackware. And Debian also.
>
> The above is not my invention, I took it fom the PC-TEAM Magazine and
> adapted.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Critian
