From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau) Subject: Re: Booting from HD without LILO ? Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 01:02:20 GMT
In article <1992Dec05.180748.1583@bigcomm.gun.de>, ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes...
>I've got a large SCSI Drive and because I like Unix I have 4 OS's on
>the machine:
>SCO, 386BSD, DOS and LINUX. I got all but Linux to boot from the Hard-Disk.
>I used the os-bs Boot-Manager which was posted in comp.unix.bsd some month
>ago. Now I don't want to change os-bs, because I don't know how the other
>OS's will behave. Can I use OS-BS for Booting Linux from HD ? What would I
>need to boot from HD ? I told OS-BS where the Linux Partition is, but when
>I want to boot it i get a "No Os". I suppose there have to be some boot-tracks
>copied to the Linux Partition. But how do I do it ? Will I destroy the
>already installed software ?
Use LILO to set up the bootstrap on the Linux partition and OS-BS should
be happpy to boot it for you. I've been using OS-BS to go between my DOS
and Linux partitions without any problems.
tom_p
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