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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

I recently was forced to find a way to boot my firewall/router system 
(Freesco) using the GRUB bootloader. Freesco used to run only on UMSDOS, 
but the last release made it possible to run from an ext2 partition. With 
that change came also the appearance of the LILO bootloader to boot the 
system with. I had many problems with installing LILO on my Freesco 
system, and when I went to upgrade the HD in that machine recently (it's 
my local fileserver, too), I simply could not get LILO to boot the system 
any more. After a good deal of research and experimentation I was able to 
boot the system with GRUB, first by using a GRUB boot floppy, then by 
installing GRUB to the HD from the GRUB boot floppy. It doesn't give the 
full install of GRUB, but it's enough of GRUB for probably 98% of the 
population's use. If this seems like something useful or desireable for 
BL, I think I could easily adapt those instructions for use with BL. Is 
there any interest on the part of BL users in using the GRUB bootloader? 
Let me know, and I'll put together a how to.

James