Mail Archives: opendos/1999/12/04/01:55:35
Does anyone have expierence doing this with System Commander?
It seems that S-C could give you all 3 choices from the start on one
menue?
Mark
On 1999-12-03 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
>> "Lars-Einar Jansson" <lars_einar DOT jansson AT 2 DOT sbbs DOT se> wrote:
>> I intend to install RedHat Linux on a machine presently running
>>Win95 and DR-DOS 7.03. I use DR-DOS Loader to be able to
>>double-boot between DR-DOS and Win 95.
>IIRC, Loader just does some trickery to boot different versions of
>DOS, so it can't be used to boot a non-DOS operating system such as
>Linux.
>> What would be the best way to maintain the option to boot to
>>Win95 and DR-DOS when I install Linux in the empty space I have
>>reserved for it on my second harddrive?
>Use LILO, but keep LOADER.
>Add an entry for DOS and this will boot Loader.
>This means you must make 2 choices when booting instead of 1, but
>it works.
>Alternatively, you can do what I did, and use both drives.
>Using LILO, it is possible to swap drives C and D so that you can
>boot drive D (and DOS will still think it's drive C).
>By doing this, you can put a small DRDOS partition on D and boot it
>with LILO. Then you can choose between DRDOS, WIN95 and LINUX all
>from LILO (which means only 1 choice, not 2).
>If you decide to do this and need more info, feel free to email.
>doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com is fastest.
>> Reading the docs accompanying RedHat, it seems to me the best
>> solution would be to use Loadlin, after first having booted to
>DR-DOS.
>That is an alternative, but I prefer LILO myself.
>> Or should I remove Loader and try LILO instead? Win95 and the
>>system files for DR-DOS reside in the first partition of the
>>first hd, whereas the rest of the DR-DOS files reside in the
>>second partiotion of the first hd.
>For the LILO trick, keep the win95 files in the first partition of
>the first drive, and put the DRDOS files in the first partition of
>the second drive. It works by remapping the disks at BIOS level
>(0x80 -> 0x81, 0x81 -> 0x80) so you MUST have them on separate
>physical disks for the trick to work.
>> Lars-Einar Jansson
>> Stockholm, Sweden
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