Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:47:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960309104522.4565A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199603090501.VAA18912@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Darren Reed wrote: > I don't think LILO is anywhere near as good as booteasy. > For one, there's only a Unix/Linux interface, AFAIK. > Another, is LILO doesn't give a menu (by default). > > I can boot everything but Linux with booteasy, across two HD's. > Why do we need LILO ? :-) > > darren BootEasy is much better than LILO, especially since it automagically adapts to new operating systems as you add/remove them. With Linux, you need to reinstall LILO every time you build a new kernel, for God's sake! In fact, even with Linux, I'd rather use booteasy in the MBR, and pass it over to LILO in the Linux root partition to boot that operating system only. But that is different from what Archie and I were saying, namely that even DOS has a better FDISK than FreeBSD! That is far more important than a mere boot loader when it comes time to add/remove partitions. ---Jake
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