On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:12:35 +0000, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> (at best, the beast would boot *only* to DOS
This is, indeed, best ;-). From there, all you have to do is create
\linux\ on the DOS partition and place loadlin.exe, a copy of your linux
kernel, and a new loadlin.cfg there. More and more, this is the choice
of Windows and DOS users also using linux. You should be able to find
loadlin about anywhere - it's probably with the Mandrake install (though
I'm not familiar with that distro).
Most DOSes also allow menus in config.sys. One choice would process your
normal config.sys and autoexec.bat. The other would bypass the rest of
config.sys and load linux.bat instead of autoexec.bat.
linux.bat
c: (I guess)
cd \linux
loadlin (name of kernel image) (filesystem to mount as root)
Check that as it's been a while for me - my syntax and parameters may need
correction; loadlin without parameters will self-document (it is, after
all, a DOS program).
Bob
flame on
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