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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] XWindows setup
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:45:08 -0500 (EST)

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.





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