On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Please answer this guy.
Hi cal1, What you want to do is not really very standard. You can do it with lilo, but it is just quite complicated and requires a reasonably good insight into the workings of the computer's boot process, master boot records (there are more functional alternatives to the microsoft one) and the way lilo works. I advise you to look into loadlin. Loadlin is a dos program that allows you to boot a linux kernel image placed in a directory on your dos partition. That way you can keep win95's mbr untouched. To boot into linux, you'd go to dos (I'm not sure if only a dos box suffices) and type something like CD \LINUX LOADLIN VMLINUZ assuming that C:\LINUX\VMLINUZ is the kernel image and that that particular image knows that its root partition is on /dev/hdb1. This can be given as a commandline option or (better) written to the image with the rdev command. You'd have to do the latter while in linux of course. Cheers, Joost > I hope I have the right area, my problem is thta I cannot seem to get Lilo > to work with Win95 and Debian. Here's my setup; > 3.2 gig Quantum with 2-1.6 gig partions (one fow Win95 and one for > games) > these take up drive letters C,D > 1.6 gig Quantum which I use fully for Linux-Debian which is drive E > > Now when I installed Debian and asked it to make my drive E drive bootable > (hdb1) it says it cannot boot from a secondary hard drive (or something to > that effect) and that I would need to use a boot floopy. Is there a way to > configure it so I can use Lilo as my boot manager and boot into either Win > 95 or Debian (or do you all prefer just Linux). I tried it myself and wound > up messing up my MBR on my Drive C:, I was able to boot into Debian fine > but Win95 was gone (the drive was invalid). I tried the Fdisk /MBR switches > from a dos disk but no luck, luckily I had a Ghost image on my system (god > I love Ghost). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
