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On 12 Mar 04 at 20:45, baslinux-request AT lists.ibibl wrote:

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>> shell=c:\$dos\bin\loadlin.exe c:\baslin\zimage
>> root=/dev/loop0 initrd=c:\baslin\initfs.gz rw

>Do I need to put loadlin.exe in a directory called c:\$dos\bin ?

no

>Or could I rewrite it for the actual location of loadlin.exe such as
>shell=c:\baslin\loadlin.exe    ?

yes

>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.

You can add as many boot options as you like. If you are running
MS-DOS you can find detailed information with the command 'help'.

>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.

I am not sure whether there are possibly parts of the memory that
linux cannot erase.

Christof Lange

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