Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Aug 1999 09:38:08 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M |
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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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