Alternative Boot Loaders

If you do not wish to use a boot loader, you have several alternatives:

LOADLIN:
You can load Linux from MS-DOS. Unfortunately, this requires a copy of the
Linux kernel (and an initial RAM disk, if you have a SCSI adapter) to be
available on an MS-DOS partition. The only way to accomplish this is to boot
your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system using some other method (for example,
from a boot CD-ROM) and then copy the kernel to an MS-DOS partition.
LOADLIN is available from

  • ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/dualboot/
And associated mirror sites.
SYSLINUX:
SYSLINUX is an MS-DOS program very similar to LOADLIN. It is also
available from

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/

and associated mirror sites.

Commercial boot loaders:
You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System
Commander and Partition Magic are able to boot Linux (but still require GRUB
to be installed in your Linux root partition).
Note

Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Commander are considered to be third-
party boot loaders and are not supported by Red Hat.

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