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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Boots from floppy but not from HD
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:45:52 +1300

Message from Steven
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Mikael Bonnier wrote:
>
> The only way I can get it to boot on this laptop is
> to install lilo to MBR. I hope I can have at least
> two small different linuces and perhaps FreeDOS on
> the laptop HD of 1.1 GB.

In that case I suggest you put FreeDOS on the first
partition (drive C:) and make it the default boot.
Then you can use loadlin.exe (from DOS) to boot the
other partitions. It will also give you the option
of running Linux from a loop file on C: (eg the DOS
version of BL3).

Cheers,
Steven




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