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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

If I also want to put the kernel into the boot sector of my BL2 partition, 
do I need a DIFFERENT lilo package for BL2 than the one for Bl1 or Bl3 or 
SW4.0 or are these all the same (independent of libc versions)?

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > lilo itself is not trimmed, but the package lacks some
> > of the usual lilo bits & pieces.  It was designed simply
> > for booting BasicLinux (without altering the MBR), not
> > as a multi-purpose boot manager.

The BL3 package puts the kernel into the linux partition superblock?

> I just want to point out that, in conjunction with SBM, BL1's lilo package
> turns out to be nearly perfect for booting multiple instances of BL.  All
> that's required is some minor editing of lilo.conf and using the -b switch
> with the right options to install it to the partition rather than the mbr.
> The size is right--only 31kb--and the configuration simple: no timeouts or
> anything, but booting straight into BL.  The SBM binary is only about 30kb
> as well IIRC, so it's a nice, minimalistic combination for multibooting
> more than one BL instance.  DOS can be booted separately, of course--and
> there's nothing preventing one from keeping loadlin and a kernel onhand in
> case of booting problems.  This seems like a good solution to me.

Keeping loadlin would let you boot into linux when you wanted it, into DOS 
by default, and then from DOS you could boot to linux faster than having 
to reboot back to SBM again.

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