Re: lilo and dosemu
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, tmalloy@escape.com wrote:
> It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions
> which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot
> partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you
> intend to use dosemu from linux. Two solutions are suggested by this. One
So, as far as you understand (I do not know either), dosemu cannot
access a partition which has LILO installed on it. However, you cannot
install LILO into a DOS partition. For example, if your /dev/hda1
is DOS, you cannot install LILO into it -- DOS requires the boot sector
(where LILO is located) for disk information, and your DOS
partition will be inaccessible if you install LILO on it. You can install
it into /dev/hda (the master boot record), and this might cause
problems with DOSEMU *if* you told DOSEMU to give the whole disk
to DOSEMU, which you probably don't want to do.
You can always mount the partitions under Linux and lredir them
to DOS drive letters. I recently moved a DOS server machine to run
under DOSEMU, by plugging in the hard drive, mounting the partitions
under Linux, and setting up a boot disk for dos to boot from.
This works fine.
hamish
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