Thank you all indeed! I think I'll stick to LiLo - at the moment it's the most "standard" and easy for me way to do that. I did not know about menus - LILO version 21 does not have this feature, I think. So I'm going to ungrade to 22.
Some comments about your replies (could not react before - was too busy): 0) My "reliable" statement concerned NOT LiLo but the others. So, it should be "as reliable as LiLo" :) 1) "Derek Broughton" is absolutely right about windows hybernation. It saves memory and stuff into a file on FAT or NTFS partition and puts special flags for waking up during the next power on. LiLo (previouse versions at least) could not handle that. 2) Concerning VMWare - I think it was quite misunderstanding about what I wanted to do (and actually did yesterday) - I have hda1=Win98; hda2=Linux Swap; hda3=Linux ext2 - vmware (for Linux) is installed (as a Linux program!) on hda3 - Win98 is installed on hda1 in normal way - LiLo resides in hda (=mbr) and has options to boot Linux kernel or Win98 (I did not try menues yet) - VMWare CAN load Windows from RAW disk. So I DO NOT need any virtual disks, it just uses existing FAT32 partition which isn't even mounted. When you invoke "PowerOn" in the VMWare window, you see your system booting, then LiLo, the choose "win" and it boots. The only problem - different hardware in the REAL and VIRTUAL machine! According to docs - it can be solved using hardware profiles in Win98. Probably I did smth wrong, but it fails. There is no transparant way to manage hardware profiles in Win - installing new hardware in one hardware profile affects hardware in the other. My solution - using two simple scripts vmstart.sh and vmstop.sh I copy windows configuration files to temporary location before booting VirtMachine, then run VM, when exit - copy that files back. It perfectly works (at least - at the moment). The main problem is syncronization - if you install smth in REAL machine it does NOT get installed in VM - there is no registry entry for it. But at the moment it's not a problem. Quite a nice thing - now I can use Linux, but run CorelDraw without rebooting into Win. It's of a crucial importance for me. And I do not need install Windows twice. Thank you all again RS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
