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5. Alternatives to LILO

Linux can be boot from a plain floppy or using loadlin. All this is unrelated to LILO but it is good to know about it. Assuming your Linux root partition is /dev/hdaX...

5.1 Using a floppy

To create a simple boot floppy, just to this

5.2 Using loadlin

To boot with loadlin (A DOS program), just copy the kernel file to your DOS partition and type, at the DOS prompt:

loadlin zimage root=/dev/hdaX ro


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