Hi Nathan --
You said:
> - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95.
If you installed win95 *after* you installed lilo) you have win95's mbr.
To boot Linux now you can either install LILO as the boot manager,
with advice from Randy Jones, or you can retain win95 as the boot
manager, but allow yourself a back door to get to Linux:
There are several ways to do this:
-- set BootMulti=1 in the [options] section of MSDOS.SYS
Then, next time you boot, just after you see the signal
"Starting Windows 95", hit the 'F8' key. This puts you into
a menu mode, from which you can choose DOS (either 7.0 or your
previous DOS) and then from there you can execute the LOADLIN.EXE
command. For example,
C:\BIN\LOADLIN.EXE /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 ro
boots a linux system that has its root on hdb2.
-- set BootWin=0 in your MSDOS.SYS file which will automatically
bring up DOS 6.22. Then run LOADLIN from there (from an AUTOEXEC.BAT
file if you like).
-- create a batch file containing the single line give above, then,
on the win95 desktop, create a shortcut to the batch file, and type
in the name of the batch file for the command line.
Then right click on it, select Properties, select the Program tab,
and the Advanced button. Check the MS-DOS mode check box and
click OK. Now Linux is just two clicks away.
Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
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