New booter

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 16 08:56:05 EST 1999


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On 15/9/99 David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> >Case in point: loadlin and syslinux.  Similar to BootX (app) and this new
> >booter (BootY?) respectively.
> 
> these tools along with BootX are fine for some situations, but you 
> forget to mention LILO which works more then 90% of the time on intel 
> hardware, it does not require windows, it does not require its own 
> dedicated partition.  it works very very well.

Then you haven't heard enough LILO horror stories.  LILO just kinda works
most of the time.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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