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

Squiz (squiz@intonet.co.uk)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 19:46:37 +0000 (GMT)


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,
>
> s/lilo/loadlin/

Nope, I meant LILO, *NOT* loadlin, loadlin runs from dos to give you
linux, LILO loads from the bootstrap code - dos has not even been though
about at that time.