Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 11:40:55 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp In-Reply-To: <38AD856B.6507326F@americasm01.nt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk As this is off-topic for this mailing list, here are only short answers. Read docs if more is needed On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote: > > >4. Does it dual-boot gracefully with DOS/Win2000/etc? > > DOS, Win98: Yes. At LILO you type dos or linux to start. > > Win2k: Overwrites LILO on purpose. Read docs. At least I have installed LILO in Linux partition and Windows installation sets windows partition active. After that I run fdisk and set Linux partition active again and LILO is back. > I've been using M$ OS's for > 5 years, and I've never had a booting issue. > I installed RH Linux for a couple of weeks in the summer and about once every 3 > days, LILO would only print "LI", then halt the machine. After it did that > once, it would never boot correctly again until I reinstalled Linux. You have installed LILO in Linux partition and modified some file lilo uses without running /sbin/lilo after that. Boot Linux from diskette and run /sbin/lilo (normally Linux installation offer possibility to create such, otherwise read docs). There is no need to reinstall Linux in such situation. > Isn't there a DOS loader for Linux? Couldn't you add that as a bootmenu > option and then avoid LILO altogether? > For example loadlin. I used it for rather long time without problems. Now I'm using LILO for dual booting. Andris