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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:19:31 -0500
From:      Jay Bratcher <jayb@netjava.com>
To:        "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD and Windows
Message-ID:  <353CFF53.F02CBEC@netjava.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421122719.355A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>

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Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jay Bratcher wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, has anyone ported (or tried porting) lilo to
> > FreeBSD?  Lilo seems a bit more flexible than booteasy.
> 
> Define flexible.  Booteasy has the advantage that it understands the
> filesystem structure, so that you give it the name of a kernel to boot,
> and it does it.  Lilo hardcodes the sectors to load into the boot file,
> which lets it boot off of other FS, but causes problems if you install a
> new kernel, but don't rerun Lilo.

make zlilo :)

Seriously though, by flexible, I meant more options.  Anyway, I can
definitely get in over my head arguing about boot managers, so I won't
do it.  I only meant to point out that lilo would be a good alternative
to booteasy if it could be ported.

Jay

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