On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>*- Michael Stenner wrote about "Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation"
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>>>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote:
>>>
>>>> But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as
>>>> the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so you'll use it as the
>>>> bootloader and then run LOADLIN from within Windows (DOS, really) to boot
>>>> your linux system.
>>>
>>>You can still use lilo to boot a slave drive. Just have lilo installed on
>>>the MBR for each drive. The boot options on the first drive would be hda1
>>>for Windows and hdb for Linux. Then install LILO on the MBR of hdb and
>>>have it load Linux from hdb1 (or 5, as I believe the original poster was
>>>using). I've had LILO setup this way for quite some time. I'd post the
>>>lilo.confs, but I don't have access to my machine right now. There are 2
>>>configuration files needed: one for hda's MBR and one for hdb's MBR.
>>
>> I disagree with both of you. You only need to install LILO on the MBR
>> of your master disk. I also do not have the config file here, but you
>> do not need LILO on both. It's a fairly logical config file, but if
>> anyone wants it, I can send it.
>
>I disagree with all of you, =). Why not just use Loadlin?
1) speed - no need to load dos just to run autoexec.bat and then flush
it and load linux.
2) simplicity - we may (ok, probably) have different opinions about what
is simpler, but LILO is made to start up immediately and then
pick an OS. Why bother going through another OS?
>No messing with the MBR's.
If this intimidates you (it intimidated me for a long time) then that's
fine, but it shouldn't: the MBR is all backed up automatically by LILO.
>You don't have to worry about Win95 or virus scanners erasing it.
OK, you've got me there - I don't know about virus scanners, but windows
only screws you up if you reinstall it. Even then, you need only type
"lilo" as root to put it back.
*sigh* it's all a matter of opinion, I suppose - all this freedom with
linux and we all get religious about the way we like to do things.
-Michael
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