From: derry@fraser.sfu.ca (Andrew Derry) Subject: Re: LILO - Generic boot loader (ALPHA TEST RELEASE) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 01:21:29 GMT
almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
>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.
>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.
Doesn't shoelace do this already? (it does on my compuer..) What's
the advantage of lilo?