> Go ahead and finish the install despite the boot disk and LILO not working, and
> use loadlin to boot Linux. Then you can go 'head and try installing LILO or
> making a boot disk manually.
>
> If you still can't, you may have to use loadlin indefinitely... if so, I'd
> suggest editing the msdos.sys on your Windows partition to change BOOTGUI=1 to
> BOOTGUI=0, and making a batch file with a short name to run the right loadlin
> command. That way when DOS boots it won't load Windows, and you can type win
> to load Windows, or the name of your batch file for loadlin to load Linux...
> almost as fast as choosing OSes as a LILO prompt.
You can make a startup menu (similar to the F8 menu) in which you can
choose DOS, Windows, or Linux. You can even make it default to a choice
after a certain period of time. This is done in config.sys.
If you don't want to mess with config.sys, you can do something similar
in autoexec.bat.
