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Kiev Lo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         I sucessfully installed Red Hat Linux on my system, but LILO was not
> installed since my primary Windoze95 partition contains a 32 bit FAT.  Therefore
> LILO could not even touch the master boot record let alone installing itself.
> My workaround for this is everytime I want to boot to linux, I'd insert the
> bootdisk in my floppy drive and specify "linux root=/dev/hda3" (hda3 being the
> primary linux native partition) at the "Boot:" prompt.  I was wondering if there
> is a speedier way than this since it's takes a while to boot from a floppy.  Is
> there another way to boot to Linux that can minimize floppy read (maybe setting
> up a customized boot-floppy pointing to a image file that resides on hda3)?  Any
> ideas?

You could install LILO in the superblock of the Linux partition
if you had another boot loader to boot it....  FAT32.  *sigh*

Sean

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