oh man oh man oh man - do we need 2 knit pick here?
y go 2 autoexec when u're goal iz 2 get linux going?
2nd - yes there iz more than 1 way 2 skin a cat - and
if i knew all of them i would not b on this list.
i just mentioned 1 in which LILO iz not the boot loader...
yeah - i'm sure u can boot DOS with LILO - then have
DOS boot win95 THEN have win95 boot linux.....
(the sledgehammer and the ant axiom)
but az u said - y would u want 2??
and if u're gonna adlib - save a couple a bytes huh?
it's "u" - not "ewe" :)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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