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Re: Installation Question (IBM TP 560)



David Goodwin <goodwid@vectra.feather.net> writes:

> On 26 Jan 1998 00:06:17 +0200 Tommi Kaariainen (tkaariai@cc.hut.fi) wrote:
> 
> >"David E. Scott" <DaveScott@1000islands.com> writes:
> >
> >The sequence of events in my machine is like this:
> >
> >1. The Master Boot Record (modified by OS/2 Boot Manager) of the hard disk 
> >   is read and executed.
> >2. The MBR starts Boot Manager
> >3. The user tells the Boot Manager to boot from the Linux partition.
> >4. The Boot Manager starts LILO boot loader on the boot block of 
> >   the Linux partition.
> >5. LILO starts Linux
> 
> So can you use (easily) LILO to manage your whole system with 3+ different OSs?
> That is what I will want to do with it, soon.

Some OSs (Linux, DOS, W95(at least without FAT32), maybe others) can be 
loaded by LILO, and on the other hand LILO (and thus Linux) can be loaded 
by OS/2 Boot Manager (it works for me), NT-loader (according to 
Linux+NT-Loader-mini-HOWTO) and some others. 

/Tommi Kääriäinen/


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