[aclug-L] Re: RedHat 7.2

["Stephen S." <junkmail001@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: RedHat 7.2


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Jeff Vian
<snip>
> > 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.
> 
  I'm not sure how LILO or GRUB will work with the bios overlay program I 
have to use to run the 18Gig HD. 

  I already have DragonLinux loaded on the laptop. Since it is set up to reside
on a FAT32 file system it has to use loadlin.

  I edited msdos.sys.  Changed DUALBOOT=1 and BOOTGUI=0.   
I have the menu for Win98SE come up so I can select normal, safe mode, etc.
Then have a menu in autoexec.bat where I can select DragonLinux, Win, Command
Prompt or Other.  I use loadlin in autoexec.bat to load DL. 

  Since this setup already works, I wanted to just add Red Hat (or Mandrake) to
the menu I already have. After reading up on loadlin this week it seems that
it should be as simple as copying the kernel file to the FAT32 partition and 
using
loadlin to slap it onto RAM overwriting command.com.

> >
> > 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, especially where
> Linux may be on a second or third disk.
> 
  Strangely...  when I tried using an icon on the Win desktop it seemed to leave
something behind or mess up some hardware settings...  Linux would run,
but Xwindows would not display right.  I have to have booted straight into
dos at command prompt for Gnome to work right.
-- 
Stephen S.


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