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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: MBR recommendation needed
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.152342.7559@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 15:23:42 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.153433.22751@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- In article <1992Sep6.153433.22751@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- > I would like to boot DOS and Linux off the hard drive. I am currently
- > using LILO and the MS-DOS MBR with the active partition set to Linux.
-
- Easy, just tell LILO about it.
-
- I'm assuming you have created an install script /etc/lilo/install and MS-DOS
- is on your first partition. Your present /etc/lilo/install should look like
- this (device names are probably different, you might use more options):
-
- #!/bin/sh
- /etc/lilo/lilo -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b \
- /linux
-
- Now, you change it to
-
- #!/bin/sh
- /etc/lilo/lilo -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b \
- /linux \
- msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda
-
- (Or, better, make the second line
- $ROOT/etc/lilo/lilo -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b $* \
- ^^^^^ ^^
- and also add a second Linux boot image.)
-
- Run it and reboot. Now, before LILO starts loading Linux, press [Shift],
- [Ctrl] or [Alt] and hold that key down. LILO will display a boot: prompt
- and you can enter msdos to boot MS-DOS.
-
- If your system boots too quickly to press [Shift], etc. fast enough, you
- can specify a delay with the -d option, e.g. -d 10 for one second.
-
- Note: - you don't have to move LILO's boot sector. MS-DOS' MBR is okay as
- the MBR (unless you care about that fraction of a second it takes
- to load it).
- - this and may other things are described in the documentation that
- accompanies LILO.
-
- - Werner
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