multi os boot and sys commander
Anyone have experience with moving / resizing / del partitions and Linux
failing to boot? how did you fix it?
Ken Weingold wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so
> > far is:
> > 1. installed dos
> > 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine
> > since it doesn't find dos.
> > 3. installed linux.
> > 4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine.
> > 5. if i now change xenix back to fat16 i cannot boot either dos or windows.
> > what i require is a way, in lilo.conf for example, for hiding the dos
> > partition when windows loads and hiding the windows partition when dos
> > loads. how is this possible? could you send a sample lilo.conf?
> > dos is on hda1, win on hda2, linux on hda3 and swap is hda5 (extended.
> > saqib
>
> I would highly recommend System Commander. It is a boot manager that
> will deal with all this seamlessly. You can even have it hide
> partitions, so you can install Windows with DOS already there. Right
> now I have running on my system: DOS 6.22, Win95 OSR2, Windows 2000,
> and Linux. All running just fine.
>
> -Ken
>
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