From now on you will see lilo first. It will let you select either
win-95 or linux. Works fine here for about 2 years now. And win-95 is now
win-98.
On Fri, 29 May 1998, John Melton - Sun UK - ENS wrote:
> I don't actually have any problem booting with LILO on the boot partition. I was just
> pointing out that using a floppy was not always the answer.
>
> -- John Melton. n6lyt/g0orx
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> > To: John Melton - Sun UK - ENS <cylsjmu@peanut.org>
> > cc: ryubdvv@nacamar.de
> > Subject: Re: Boot options
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> > On Thu, 28 May 1998, John Melton - Sun UK - ENS wrote:
> >
> > > > What is so hard about booting from a floppy and typing lilo?
> > >
> > > That is OK, but my laptop can only have either the cdrom or the floppy
> > > installed when it is not in the docking station, so it makes it hard to boot
> > > from a floppy when I want the cdrom.
> >
> > If you have access to the CD from a plain old dos (no win95 gui), you
> > could boot linux directly off the (redhat) cd from dos using loadlin.
> > I've done this a couple of times, to reenable the lilo after virus95 did
> > some bad things....
> > Another posibility, is to always have a kernel and loadlin on the
> > win95/dos partition. Then you can always get in to the system from a dos
> > prompt (NOT a dos window under win95)
> >
> > Thomas Mørch
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> >
> > If God had intended man to smoke He would have set him on fire.
> >
>
>
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -