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> THe first step is to stop Windows 95 automatically
> booting.  You want it to give you a DOS prompt.
> > From there you can execute "win" to start Windows.
> Or execute a loadlin command to start Linux.
> Or execute any DOS command or bat file (eg menu).
>
> To stop Windows auto-booting, do this:
> (1) boot Linux
> (2) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> (3) cd /mnt
> (3) edit MSDOS.SYS

You can also do this from a DOS prompt (DOS box, DOS boot disk, booting to 
command prompt with F8) if you first unhide the file with
attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys
(you can rehide with attrib +r +s +h if you want).

Booting with loadlin sometimes causes problems.  Xvesa may not work if you 
have loaded a mouse driver, for instance, or himem.sys.  These are TSR 
programs that I think use some part of memory needed by Xvesa.  If you are 
not using DOS, you probably don't have an autoexec.bat or config.sys and 
should be okay.

I have one computer where the keyboard stops working in linux if I use 
loadlin.

If you don't use DOS and you prefer lilo boot you can probably boot 
directly to Windows by choosing DOS at the boot prompt (you may want to 
call it WIN instead in lilo.conf) after typing CTRL during bootup.
(Without editing MSDOS.SYS).

Loadlin is easier to set up but takes longer to boot to linux since first 
you need to boot to DOS.  I use it anyway.

> (4) change BootGUI=1 to BootGUI=0
> (5) be careful not to add any extra characters
> (6) exit, umount /mnt, reboot
>
> Now when you boot Windows, you will get a prompt.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi