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- From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
- Subject: Re: Best choice for booting from hard drive
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.141620@tiger1.prime.com>
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- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep1.051139.12653@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:16:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.051139.12653@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
- > I'm looking for recommendations of boot programs so I can boot linux from my
- > hard drive. I am aware of shoelace and lilo, but am not aware of the diff-
- > erences.
- >
- > My current configuration consists of one hard drive in two partitions. DOS
- > is on the first partition and linux root is on the second. I'm currently
- > booting linux 0.97pl2 from floppy, but would like to change that to boot
- > from the hard drive.
- >
- > Opinions anyone?
-
- I'm using BOOTLIN along with a DOS boot manager. When you boot off of the hard
- drive, you get a menu (from your CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS partition) which
- allows you to select which configuration you want to boot. One of those
- choices can be the BOOTLIN program which will read your LINUX boot image out
- of your DOS filesystem, and boot it for you. BOOTLIN is free I beleive, but
- the boot manager is shareware (it's mentioned in the BOOTLIN documentation what
- it is. I seem to remember getting it from wuarchive in the SIMTEL20 mirror).
-
- I have had none of the 'uninitialized record' problems that shoelace and lilo
- have had (probably because the boot file in the DOS file system has no holes in it).
-
- BOOTLIN.ZIP (or something close to that name) is available on tsx-11.mit.edu.
-
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