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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

I see in the list archives that lilo is reccommended if one wants to boot 
directly into BL2.1, as compared with booting it from DOS.

I was just wondering how it could be done without Lilo.

I used a DOS program called Ranish Partition Manager  
http://www.ranish.com/part/   on my new $55 computer.

Now when I boot there's a choice of 1) Windows FAT-32  2) Linux ext2fs  
[that's where BL2.1 is]  3) Linux swap  4) Linux ext2fs

If I choose 1) and get a DOS prompt, I can do BL's BOOT.BAT as usual.
(Does DOS get chased away out of memory etc after Linux loads?)

But what could I do so as to choose to boot from another partition, for 
example the one where BL2.1 is installed

I see the lilo howto gives lots of info, including stuff to put into a 
lilo.conf.  As I said, I haven't yet actually downloaded & installed lilo, 
and don't understand much of that info.

Would there be some files I could put in my BL partition that would let it 
boot?  Would I edit  /etc/inittab?
 
My current BOOT.BAT is
REM loadlin zimage kbd-reset root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz
REM loadlin bzimage vga=ask kbd-reset root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz
loadlin bzimage vga=ask root=/dev/hdb3 ro

Thanks a lot,

Sheldon Isaac