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Re: quick question



Quoting Tek (tek@servetech.net):
> Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but
> didn't use the right name).  I believe I know now what to do, but I still
> don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the
> root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I intend to boot into DOS
> first, then Linux?

I would use a better subject line.

If you're booting into DOS, then make just the DOS partition bootable.

Cheers,

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