Re: Installing tomsrtbt on hard disk

At 01:29 PM 3/4/2003 -0000, Mike Hudson wrote:
>I'm using GRUB to multi-boot several OS (incl Win98), mainly to evaluate
>different Linux distros. However I don't always have a nix installed but
>need to edit my grub.conf quite frequently. Hopefully, one day they'll allow
>GRUB to edit its own config file, but until then we have to use a nix
>editor.
>This is my main use for tomsrtbt, but booting toms from the floppy every
>time is a bit of a pain. What I'd really like to do is to install toms into
>my GRUB ext2 partition, and have the option to boot toms from my GRUB menu.

This lazy man's way of doing it involves a 2-step boot:

1) From grub booting to the Win98 partition

2) Win98's MSDOS.SYS (a text file) had this option changed:
	BootGUI=0
   This forces me to type "win" at the C: prompt to get into 
   Windows, but I don't do it that often. And getting to the 
   DOS prompt is *so* much faster than waiting for Windows.

3) Win98 has a /tomsrtbt directory & and somewhere in the 
   command path is a toms.bat file:
	c:
	cd \tomsrtbt
	loadlin zImage initrd=initrd.bz2 ramdisk_size=20480 root=/dev/ram0 rw

It's a little kludgy, but in practice it's much faster than 
waiting for a full Windows or Linux distribution to load.

Cheers,
Tyler