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It's 10 Jun 97  09:49,
We'll return to mljmcphe@mailbox.uq.edu.au and All's
discussion of hdd partition problems

 ml> using loadlin. Of course, the other option (which is not always
 ml> suitable for everybody) is to completely remove dos ;) note that I'm
 ml> not advocating that you should do this - you need to do what you need
 ml> to do.

You don't need to remove DOS.  Simply mount the DOS partition under
Linux, put the necessary boot files (kernal image and LILO loaders) in
their own subdirectory, and make /boot a symbolic link to where the
files actually are (i.e. the directory on the DOS partition).  Edit
/etc/lilo to point to the new kernel location, and run /sbin/lilo.

Next time you reboot, Linux will be loaded from the DOS partition
(guaranteed to be below 1024 cylinders! :) ).

I used to put my boot files on a DOS partition, and had no problems,
except for having to manually move kernels to /boot after compiling
them and running LILO. :-)

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