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SubjectRe: Kernels > 1M
George wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> >I guess I find that a bit hard to believe... it seems that if you want
> >to automate it it would be a lot easier and cleaner to use LILO, and not
> >a disk in the drive. For boot disks I personally want access to the
> >kernel command line, hence I use SYSLINUX (but I'm biased, of course!)
>
> Those of us trying to boot Linux from 'hdd' or past the 1 GB mark find
> disks handy to. Not my computer, but others I have worked with that are
> running the other operating system too and thus cannot change to not need
> the disk.
>
> -George Greer

That's not the point, though; the point is that there are cleaner ways
to do it than the old bootloader.

-hpa

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