Booting to Windows and Linux

The final step is to set your computer up so that you can boot to Linux or Windows. There are a number of different possible approaches to accomplish this. If it works, the easiest thing to is to configure LILO, the Linux bootstrap loader that actually starts the Linux kernel.

Once LILO has been configured, when you reboot your system, the LILO prompt will appear:

						LILO boot

If you press the Tab key, the names for booting the different operating systems will be displayed: for example, DOS and Linux. Type the name of the operating system you want to boot the computer to.

Another very good approach is to use a boot floppy to load Linux. Otherwise, if you are booting from DOS, you may want to write a DOS batch file to ...

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