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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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