On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -0000, Andrew Holmes wrote: > I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and > NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the > linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem > for the root filesystem. If this is impossiable please let me know. Any info > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :-)
It is possible, but it is a lot slower to access a filesystem inside another filesystem (expecially a fat one) then directly from a partition, so I would suggest to avoid this, unless the root filesystem is so small that it can be put in a ramdisk. -Michele