Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

[Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net>]

"Saqib Shaikh" <sshaik@essex.ac.uk> writes:

> hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux?  what i have done so
> far is:

     I believe it can be done with lilo, but I'm not familiar with
lilo.   I do exactly what you want with GRUB.  Following is part of
my GRUB menu.lst file:

# Boot automatically after 10 secs.
timeout 10

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

# For booting Linux
title  Debian Woody
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro ether=0,0,eth1

# For booting DOS
title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1
hide (hd1,0)
unhide (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader  +1
 
# For booting Windows95
  title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1
  unhide (hd1,0)
  hide (hd0,0)
  map (hd1) (hd0)
  map (hd2) (hd1)
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader  +1


     This has two minor problems.  When I boot Windows, I get the
following message:

     Non-System disk or disk-error
     Replace and press any key when ready

     When I press [ENTER], it boots normally. 

     After it is booted, Windows thinks hd1 (/dev/hdb) is C: and hd2
(/dev/hdc) is D:.  This is what is desired.  However, it thinks
/dev/hdc is also E:.  Neither of these problems are show-stoppers as
far as I am concerned.

Bob
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