From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: LILO - Generic boot loader (ALPHA TEST RELEASE) Date: 29 Jun 1992 07:30:10 GMT
In article <derry.709780889@sfu.ca> derry@fraser.sfu.ca (Andrew Derry) writes:
>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,
...
>>Features
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>
>> - does not depend on the file system. (Tested with Minix and MS-DOS FS.)
>
>Doesn't shoelace do this already? (it does on my compuer..) What's
>the advantage of lilo?
The problem is that shoelace only works with a Minix-style file system,
and doesn't do even that very well. Moreover, it is bloated with an
fsck that doesn't work -- at least not for me -- and cannot be recompiled
under Linux, only under Minix. When the new file system(s) are available
with 0.97, we don't want to have to keep a Minix system only to boot from!
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk