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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] syslinux where loadlin fails and lilo was not installed
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:48:08 +0000 (UTC)


Regarding a computer where loadlin will no longer work even with Win;98 DOS (which fixed five others). Syslinux booted. It looks about as easy to set up as lilo and supposedly installs something to the boot record of a DOS floppy disk (except SW81 formatted the floppy disk with lilo to 1.68MB) and you need to put the kernel on the floppy disk and a config file telling it what to boot. So we have a way to boot but can syslinux be installed to the DOS hard drive? The kernel goes into a DOS directory rather than a linux directory, unlike lilo. You type syslinux a: (or syslinux /dev/fd0) and it puts ldlinux.sys on the DOS disk and something in the boot record of the disk. IT booted to hdb1 from teh floppy disk.

Presumably syslinux is another way to boot and we will try to access SW81 with it (and if that works we could also install lilo at that time). Can you use syslinux to boot from DOS, like loadlin?

I don't think we actually went into DOS with the boot disk, tho the disk is readable in DOS. We cannot do a diskcopy of it in DOS. It does give us a way to choose where to boot from, including which kernel.

What exactly can lilo do to damage the partition? Is this software or hardware damage? It is one of our larger nicer drives.

I know this is not exactly basliclinux but the computer will probably end up with basiclinux eventually if it can be made to boot linux, and syslinux might be handy for other people when loadlin does not work. Hal has two such computers and I now have four. Everything else seems to work on them (except that the Gateway does not like FreeDOS, but neither does another Gateway which runs loadlin just fine).

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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