From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: No luck getting lilo to boot DRDOS Date: 19 Mar 1993 00:27:01 +0100
In comp.os.linux, article <1993Mar17.174851.5021@gandalf.ca>,
lentz@gandalf.ca (Jim Lentz (Wheeling Tech Support)) writes:
> I have made numerous attempts to get lilo to boot DRDOS with
> no luck. In my /etc/lilo/config I have the following lines relating
> to dos:
> other = /dev/hda1 #The DOS partition
> table = /dev/hda
> label = dos
>
> I put this entry before my entry for linux because I want DOS to
> boot by default. Lilo claims it is booting dos but it just hangs.
Duh. Some OSses seem to require "their" partition to be marked as the active
partition; if it isn't they don't boot.
Maybe DR-DOS behaves that way. SCO Unix certainly does. Fortunately, Linux
doesn't care.
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