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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] plip problem
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 18:38:37 +1200

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





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