On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
> 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!
Depends. You can run loadlin from autoexec.bat or the command line
too, if you don't put it in config.sys.
>
> Consequences of the previous statement are that
> DOS/WIN95/WIN98 MUST RULE the master boot record!
>
> lilo has nothing to do with this
It is also possible with a standard mbr to activate your linux
partition and boot any partition with lilo, if it is installed into
your linux partition. There's more ways than you know to skin a cat.
You can boot dos with lilo and linux with loadlin if yew sew desire,
but blow me down flat if I know why ewe'd want to.
>
> The alternate way of doing multiboot is to have linux rule the
> MBR. then AND ONLY THEN do u use lilo for multiboot.
Lawson
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