From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) Subject: Re: Best choice for booting from hard drive Date: 1 Sep 1992 18:16:20 GMT
In article <1992Sep1.051139.12653@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
> I'm looking for recommendations of boot programs so I can boot linux from my
> hard drive. I am aware of shoelace and lilo, but am not aware of the diff-
> erences.
>
> My current configuration consists of one hard drive in two partitions. DOS
> is on the first partition and linux root is on the second. I'm currently
> booting linux 0.97pl2 from floppy, but would like to change that to boot
> from the hard drive.
>
> Opinions anyone?
I'm using BOOTLIN along with a DOS boot manager. When you boot off of the hard
drive, you get a menu (from your CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS partition) which
allows you to select which configuration you want to boot. One of those
choices can be the BOOTLIN program which will read your LINUX boot image out
of your DOS filesystem, and boot it for you. BOOTLIN is free I beleive, but
the boot manager is shareware (it's mentioned in the BOOTLIN documentation what
it is. I seem to remember getting it from wuarchive in the SIMTEL20 mirror).
I have had none of the 'uninitialized record' problems that shoelace and lilo
have had (probably because the boot file in the DOS file system has no holes in it).
BOOTLIN.ZIP (or something close to that name) is available on tsx-11.mit.edu.
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