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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

> For users of MS-DOS a convenient alternative is to setup
> a boot menu in config.sys, eg.
> 
> -------------------------------
> [MENU]
> MENUITEM=DOS,DOS              Are you given a chance to type dos or bl3
> MENUITEM=LIN,LINUX            or linux (what if you type lin or linux?)
> MENUITEM=BL3,BL3
> MENUDEFAULT=DOS,10
> 
> [DOS]
> ...
> 
> [BL3]
> shell=c:\$dos\bin\loadlin.exe c:\baslin\zimage
> root=/dev/loop0 initrd=c:\baslin\initfs.gz rw
> ---------------------------
> 
> The last two lines must be one long line.

Do I need to put loadlin.exe in a directory called c:\$dos\bin ?
Or could I rewrite it for the actual location of loadlin.exe such as 
shell=c:\baslin\loadlin.exe    ?

How would I go about adding another menu item for [BL2], which is, for 
instance, in c:\bl2?  I want to be able to boot the HD version directly 
instead of first booting DOS.  


My partner asks how is this different from a boot manager?  Does it boot 
you partway into DOS and then switch to linux?  I presume the purpose of 
this is to be able to boot linux without autoexec.bat and config.sys, 
not to save time booting.