On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
> I've been trying (desperately and apparently unsucessfully)
> to follow this thread
Why? After all there are just one guy who speaks without
knowing the facts. So why insulting the whole list for his stupidity?
> NO!!! - it is NOT IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS !!!
> IT IS CONFIG.SYS you must edit.
> both io.sys and msdos.sys are binaries...
msdos.sys isn't binary anymore... not from dos7.0
> 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!
Yup. But if someone has the Linux partition (no matter why) after
that hated 1k cylinder, loadlin is the solution. So you can put in
autoexec bat an option to boot linux. The one who launched this idea
didn't have this in mind. He was just giving a stupid method to do
something that normally is done very easy.
> Consequences of the previous statement are that
> DOS/WIN95/WIN98 MUST RULE the master boot record!
dos/win _must_ rule the MBR anyway. I have lilo on a floppy and I
keep the floppy in the drive all the time so there is no real difference
between the MBR and the boot record of the floppy. I did put lilo in the
MBR before. But windoze needs from time to time to be reinstalled. And
at every reinstall windoze will rewrite the MBR.
> Frankly, I am mystifyed that any of what you have said below
> actually works for multibooting linux and windows.
> (Unless you use a floppy ) :)
It can be done from dos using loadlin.
Raider
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