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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: running dos & linux
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:27:42 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1iukguINN95g@uwm.edu>
- References: <pcc.726808155@s1.gov>
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- Summary: Only one bootable partition.
-
- In article <pcc.726808155@s1.gov> pcc@s1.gov (Philip C. Cox) writes:
- >I wanted to make sure that having a bootable dos partition and having a
- >bootable linux partition on the same disk will work. I am curious as to
- >how you (re)specify the active partition while in linux. Do I just use
- >fdisk ( like in dos )? Am I reading more into this that there is?
- >
- >Phil
-
- First, you should only have *one* bootable partition at any one time.
- The best way to go about it is *NOT* to keep toggling back and forth.
- You're better off to make your Linux partition *the* bootable one, and
- install LILO. You can tell LILO to give you a choice by simply giving
- it more than one boot-option, like so:
-
- cd / (/dev/hda2, that is)
- /etc/lilo/lilo -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -d 20 -v -v -v \
- msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda \
- linux=/vmlinux
-
- My DOS is on /dev/hda1 and my Linux is on /dev/hda2. My wife still uses
- my home system for DOS, and she doesn't care to learn UNIX yet, so I make
- DOS the 'default' OS by listing it's boot-option first.
-
- Thus, whenever I boot I have two seconds (20 x 0.1s) to press [Ctrl], [Alt],
- [Shift], [Caps Lock], or [Tab]. If I don't, LILO loads DOS. If I do, LILO
- asks me which OS to boot.
-
- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
-