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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Am I correct that lilo can also be used as a boot manager 
> if you want a choice between booting DOS or linux?

Yes.

> when I turned it on today and tried to boot into linux, told 
> me 'not a kernel image' the first time I tried to boot but 
> worked the second time.  I could try it with IBM-DOS but lilo 
> might fix the problem just as well.

Don't count on lilo to fix your problem.  lilo causes more
complications than loadlin, not less.

> Perhaps the 2.2.16 kernel has a bug that makes it intermittently 
> unloadable with loadlin in certain operating systems on certain 
> motherboards?

There are documented bugs in some motherboards and chips.  When 
you compile the kernel, you are offered workarounds for those bugs
(at the cost of space and/or speed).  Most of those workarounds 
are *not* in the BL3 kernel.  The bare.i kernel in Slackware 7.1 
includes most of the workarounds.

> Does it take any longer to load linux with lilo (having already 
> booted into DOS) than with loadlin?

You can't go from DOS to lilo (although you can go from lilo to DOS).

Cheers,
Steven