From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 11:20:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA05299 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:20:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05286 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14981(4)>; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:19:27 PST Received: from johngalt.mc.xerox.com (johngalt.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19842; Mon, 11 Mar 96 14:19:28 EST Received: by johngalt.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07438; Mon, 11 Mar 96 14:19:27 EST Message-Id: <9603111919.AA07438@johngalt.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Darren Reed Cc: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 21:02:49 PST." <199603090501.VAA18912@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:19:25 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 I think work has to be done in all camps to make it work more consistently...I have several machines I use with a combination of windows/freebsd/linux fbsdboot and booteasy give different results depending on (it appears) system differences. I don't use lilo yet (I need to learn how to use it...) but loadlin seems to work everywhere (even ontrack disks...). -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom