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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:42:22 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows
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>> >  LILO is a combination boot selector and boot loader for the kernel.  I
>> >don't care for it.  Mainly because I can't choose a kernel and pass kernel
>> >flags, without re-configuring LILO first.
>> 
>> I don't care for it either, but it can pass kernel flags.
>
>  Yes it can, but you need to re-configure LILO with the flags you want
>first.

No, you can give flags (actually, environment strings) on the command line.
The Linux BootPrompt HOWTO gives the example "LILO: linux root=/dev/hda1"
where "LILO: " is the boot prompt.

Bruce

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