[aclug-L] Re: RedHat 7.2

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Behalf Of Jeff Vian
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> Loadlin is on the cd, in /dosutils.
> One way to set it up would be to tell the boot loader to install the
> image on the first sector of the boot partition instead of the master
> boot record. Then you can use loadlin.
>
> I really don't understand why you want to load dos/windows, then use
> loadlin to replace the running os with a new one.  In order to use
> loadlin you must allow a full boot with the dos/windows OS, then loadlin
> is "supposed" to replace the entire operating OS with Linux.
> It is slow and a 2-step process that would be done more efficiently as a
> single step by selecting the OS to load at boot time and having the
> machine set to dual boot.

Actually, that's not quite true. You can F8 at the boot beep and select a
command prompt. On my laptop, I *have* to boot to DOS first in order to
initialize some devices, then run loadlin to warm boot to Linux.

>
> One thing I would be concerned about is that doing it with loadlin will
> probably result in the common warning and scandisk running because
> windows was not properly shut down.

Not at all.  You just set a shortcut to run in exclusive DOS mode, and
everything's happy. I've done this on a number of machines, expecially where
Linux may be on a second or third disk.

--dwh

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