Many years ago I ran a triple-boot setup with SCO Unix, DOS 6.22 and Slackware Linux (circa 1994).
The bootloader was SCO's, presenting a Boot prompt and defaulting to DOS. I could type Unix if I wanted to boot SCO. Boot would time out after 60 seconds, and that was/is configurable. If it went on to DOS then DOS presented a multiconfig menu (config.sys [menu] option) presenting either DOS, Win 3.1 or Linux, and defaulting to Linux via loadlin.exe. If the DOS menu timed out to default I'd end up in Linux. In today's scenario on Win32 you can still use the menu option in config.sys, combined with loadlin. Then you can define several boot options for the loadlin startup. I've used the multiconfig option as recently as WinME. You can find the description of the config.sys/autoexec.bat menu configuration options online. Search in Google. MS may actually have a KB article on it...well, they have some troubleshooting ones, covering caveats of using multiconfig in Win9x/ME. Here's a good link: http://www.shiningstart.net/geek/html/multiconfig.html sh On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:59, Tyler Sperry wrote: > At 01:29 PM 3/4/2003 -0000, Mike Hudson wrote: > >I'm using GRUB to multi-boot several OS (incl Win98), mainly to evaluate > >different Linux distros. However I don't always have a nix installed but > >need to edit my grub.conf quite frequently. Hopefully, one day they'll allow > >GRUB to edit its own config file, but until then we have to use a nix > >editor. > >This is my main use for tomsrtbt, but booting toms from the floppy every > >time is a bit of a pain. What I'd really like to do is to install toms into > >my GRUB ext2 partition, and have the option to boot toms from my GRUB menu. > > This lazy man's way of doing it involves a 2-step boot: > > 1) From grub booting to the Win98 partition > > 2) Win98's MSDOS.SYS (a text file) had this option changed: > BootGUI=0 > This forces me to type "win" at the C: prompt to get into > Windows, but I don't do it that often. And getting to the > DOS prompt is *so* much faster than waiting for Windows. > > 3) Win98 has a /tomsrtbt directory & and somewhere in the > command path is a toms.bat file: > c: > cd \tomsrtbt > loadlin zImage initrd=initrd.bz2 ramdisk_size=20480 root=/dev/ram0 rw > > It's a little kludgy, but in practice it's much faster than > waiting for a full Windows or Linux distribution to load. > > Cheers, > Tyler -- Scot Harkins (KA5KDU) Systems Engineer Apropos Retail Management Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aproposretail.com
