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Next, I installed Windows-95 on my office system. It blew away my nice
Lilo MBR, but it left my Linux partitions alone. Kernels take a long
time to load from floppy, so I made a floppy with a working Lilo setup
on it, which could boot my kernel from the IDE.
I made the lilo floppy like so:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 # lay tracks on virgin diskette
mkfs -t minix /dev/fd0 1440 # make file system of type minix
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt # mount in the standard tmp mount point
cp -p /boot/chain.b /mnt # copy the chain loader over
lilo -C /etc/lilo.flop # install Lilo and the map on the diskette.
umount /mnt
Notice that the diskette must be mounted when you run the
installer so that Lilo can write its map file properly.
This file is /etc/lilo.flop. It's almost the same as the last one:
# Makes a floppy that can boot kernels from HD.
boot = /dev/fd0
map = /mnt/lilo-map
delay = 100
ramdisk = 0
timeout = 100
prompt
disk = /dev/hda # 1 GB IDE, BIOS only sees first 500 MB.
bios=0x80
sectors = 63
heads = 16
cylinders = 2100
image = /vmlinuz
append = "hd=2100,16,63"
root = /dev/hda2
label = linux
read-only
vga = extended
other = /dev/hda1
label = msdos
table = /dev/hda
loader = /mnt/chain.b
Finally, I needed MS-DOS 6.2 on my office system, but I didn't
want to touch the first drive. I added a SCSI controller and
drive, made an msdos file system on it with Linux' mkdosfs, and
Windows-95 sees it as "D:". But of course MSDOS will not boot
off of D:. This is not a problem when you have Lilo. I added
the following to the lilo.conf in Example 2.
other = /dev/sda1
label = d6.2
table = /dev/sda
loader = /boot/any_d.b
With this modification MSDOS-6.2 runs, and it thinks it is on C: and
Windows-95 is on D:.
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