Hey philip,
Tried that, But one day linux partition went bust. And so did LILO. It
just got stuck, refusing to go further. Since then i've stuck to loadlin.:)
-rohit
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ilug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] 3 os's
>On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> hey gang,
>>
>> Is there anyway i can boot three os's without using lilo. I have
win98
>> and linux. I boot into linux using loadlin.Now I am planning to install
>> freebsd . So how do i (can i) boot into freebsd from dos mode. I don't
want
>> any boot managers coz my parents use the comp and are very *technophobic*
:)
>>
>> -rohit
>
>Rohit, I use Linux at home, and dual boot with Win98. If my family didn't
>see me working on it, they would never have known that there was another
>operating system.
>
>LILO can be set to automatically boot into Windows if nothing is done in
>about 2 or 3 seconds.
>
>It displays the prompt:
>Lilo:
>and waits for about 3 secs. If nothing is done, it boots into the default
>os, which in your case would be Win.
>
>You could even change the prompt to look like something less suspicious.
>Like:
>Booting... or something like that. As long as you know what to do, that's
>all that there is to it.
>
>Philip
>
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