From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: linux as only bootable partition Date: 21 May 1992 21:15:21 GMT
In article <gunter.706437336@severus> gunter@sci.kun.nl (Gunter Windau) writes:
>edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) writes:
>
>>For people actively supporting free UNIX, there is an awful emphasis
>>on maintaining MSDOS bootability around this group... :)
>
>>Anyhow, I'm getting a brand new 486/33 tomorrow, and since I already
>>have a 286 running DOS, I have no intention of installing it on my
>>new box. I've read over the installation docs explaining how to make
>>your linux partition co-bootable with a DOS partition, but haven't
>>seen any reference to using linux as your _only_ OS. I've already
>>created my FD/HD bootimage disks and the rootimage disk, but shoelace
>>seems like a bit of overkill, since I only want one bootable
>>partition. Is this the only way to do this without rewriting the
>>boot sector by hand? I'm not sure that I'm quite up to that right
>>now, so if not could someone mail/post the solution, please.
>
>You might create a small partition on your harddisk that's just
>big enough to hold the linux bootimage and make this partition
>the 'active' one. I think the bios will load the kernel from this
>partition, just like it does from a floppy.
>I haven't tried it myself so it might not work, although I'd like
>to know if it does...
Use shoelace on the root partition, but not winiboot on the master boot
record, and set the active partition in the master boot record to
your root filesystem.