Re: booting Linux from a dos box in win3.1

ADAM Sulmicki (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:30:41 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Justin Dossey wrote:

->On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Squiz wrote:
->> The fastest method, which I currently use at the moment, is to install
->> 'lilo', set up your default os (Linux/Windoze) and when you want to boot
->> the other just hold down the left shift key during booting, no config.sys
->> to load or anything, and much faster :)
->
->I believe you meant 'loadlin', so if I may,

no, he meant 'lilo', thought I actually believe that much better solution
wouldbe 'mke2fs /dev/hda1' or whenver the windows partition is :)
[warning: DON'T do it unless you really know what it does -- just to be
safe]

-Adam