At 07:52 AM 2/7/1999 -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: >Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> >> This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition, >> then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible >> if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just >> change your active partition (even Windows' fdisk will let you do that). >> > > >I agree in principle, but in this case he has Linux on his second disk >(hdb1), and the Win9X MBR doesn't allow active partitions on a slave >disk - he would have no way to get to Linux (other than a boot floppy or >loadlin). If he wants to use Lilo, it has to be in the MBR to provide >access to Linux on the 2nd disk. > >Tom >
Another option (but not necessarily the best by any means), is to use loadlin from Win95's DOS prompt to start Linux. You can even go one step further and disable the autoload of Win95 so that a boot just drops you to a DOS prompt so you can manually fire up Linux (loadlin) or Win95 (win). You can then go one step further and set up CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT to offer the choice of which OS you want to boot into. I'm doing this at home because trying to install LILO broke 95, and although I know I could have fixed it properly, I wanted to see if I could do it "in reverse". It works, and I haven't bothered to go back yet and fix LILO to work.
