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Re: Run more than one OS on your PC!



> On Tue, 6 May 1997, Neri Bar-On wrote:
> 
> > > Have some one heard about "System Commander", or used it with Linux and Microsoft shit?
> > > Can you send me some information about it?
> > > I found that LILO is very uncomfortable with large disks on a single PC, so I am looking for alternatives.
> > > 
> > Yigal,
> > 
> >  Instead of using LILO, I use loadlin and happy with it.
> > you need to copy the linux kernal to the DOS partition and it
> > work great (for me :).
> 
> Loadlin is certainly not the way to go. It wastes overhead, and you
> have you kernel on the dos partition, where anyone can mangle with it.
> 
> Why are people so uptight about LiLo anyway ?? I am happily working with
> it. Yes, it is not too easy to work with, and you can't give real 
> boot:
> options, or chose the kernel to boot dynamically(like SunOS, Solaris and
> BSDi), but it is easy to install, and works.
> 
> --Ariel
> > 
> >   Neri.
> > 

To all those LILO users that like it so much:
Here is some thing triky for you:

You have lets say 4 IDE HD: 1st is ~1.2 GB, 2nd is 500MB, 3rd is 500MB as well.
You all so have 3 SCSI devises: 1st is 2GB HD, 2nd is 500MB HD, and 3rd is a DAT.

On the first IDE HD I have Loose 95 and NT 4.0 the other IDE HD are just for storage for a while.
On the first SCSI HD I have installed Linux.( I want it to be as much seperated from the other OSs as possible).

I claim that on this configuration LILO wan't do. because the MBR on the first IDE is to small to handle all the 
tables it needs to boot into the SCSI HD. P.S the kernel is on a small partition ( the first one ) ~200MB.

I think that I saw in one of the LILO FAQ's that you have to do a lot of cheeting in order to boot with LILO on this 
configuration: first make a nother partition on the first IDE HD ( as small as possible ) which will contain only the 
linux kernel. And then config LILO to use the kernel on that partition.

As you see this is some kind of triky, and that way I loose the complete seperation between the OS's and their HDs.

Till now I boot into Linux using a boot floppy.

I even tried to boot with Loadlin which didnt worked as well, bat maybe I didn't mess with it enougth.
So that's why I'm looking for alternatives.
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