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[Ian <info AT freedomnet.org.uk>]

This isnt a serious problem with Lilo such as you had but I find
having to type "Linux" or whatever I want booted rather irksome.
The latest Lilo starts with a menu from which you can choose with
up or down keys. How does grub compare with this? Does it start
with a menu?

     James Miller writes:
> 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

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Bye now,
        Ian.