[plug] VMWare and LILO configuration

[Jeremy Malcolm]

> Can anyone recommend a better LILO and/or VMWare configuration? I prefer that
> VMWare not to prompt me for the guest OS. I plan to install other Guest OSs on
> other HD (/dev/hdb). How will the "boot" directive in lilo.conf, direct to the
> other guest OSs on /dev/hdb1 or /dev/hdb2 etc?

Yep, no problem.  Tell vmware to give the virtual machine "no access" to
partition /dev/hda0 (ie. the MBR).  That way, the virtual machine won't
even know the MBR is there, and it will use the boot record of /dev/hda5
instead.  All you need to do is make sure you have a Windows 98 boot
sector located on /dev/hda5.

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