From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: LILO - Generic boot loader (ALPHA TEST RELEASE) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 23:33:20 GMT
A preliminary alpha test version of a generic (e.g. file-system-independent)
boot loader called LILO ("LInux LOader") is on banjo.concert.net,
/pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.0.tar.Z
You need a 0.96 kernel (patches are relative to 0.96b), any reasonably up
to date gcc and as86/ld86 to use it.
I've appended the advertising section of the README to this posting.
- Werner
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LILO - Generic Boot Loader for Linux ("LInux LOader") by Werner Almesberger
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This is the first ALPHA test release of a new boot loader. Be sure to have
some means to boot your system from a different media if you install LILO on
your hard disk.
This version will be replaced as soon as better kernel support for LILO
becomes available.
Features
========
- does not depend on the file system. (Tested with Minix and MS-DOS FS.)
- can be used to boot from floppies and from hard disks.
- should be able to replace the master boot sector on Linux-only systems.
(UNTESTED)
- supports up to four different boot images that can be selected at boot
time. Root and swap disk/partition can be set independently for each
image.
- boot sector, file map and boot images can be all on different disks or
partitions.
Restrictions
============
- SCSI disks are not supported yet.
- images can not yet be read from device special files.
- BIOS drive codes can not be manually specified for boot image files.
- requires some obscure kernel patches that will certainly never be part
of any kernel release. However, some functionally equivalent extensions
are expected.
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