Messages in this thread | | | From | Taral <> | Subject | Re: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:18:12 -0600 |
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Anthony Barbachan wrote: > Time = money + free > time, so having to boot with a boot floppy to get a LILO damaged machine > back up, then reinstall LILO, and then reboot again so that the boot loader > could redetect the correct amount of memory to pass to the kernel could easy > add downtime costing Linux users both precious time and $.
Take a look at GRUB. It can load itself from a floppy, then boot the kernel from virtually anywhere (including finding it as a file in an ext2 filesystem).
I use it, and have never had to touch it since :) http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/
Taral
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