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

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, James Miller wrote:

> I've got BL 3 booting with GRUB (under qemu, but I assume it would work as
> well on real hardware and am prepared to test that if needed).  I've found
> GRUB to be superior to Lilo for a number of reasons, not least of which is
> that you only need to edit a text file to add additional booting options
> (e.g., other kernels)--no need to do the lilo -v thing.  Before writing up
> a how to and going to other lengths, I just want to give a report to see
> if what I'm doing with GRUB is of interest to other BL users or developer.
> GRUB is fairly small: the stage 1 and stage 2 files I've put on my BL
> install, along with other needed files, take up less than 100kb.  Given
> its small size, does it seem to others like GRUB would be appropriate for
> BL?  I'm guessing it's bigger than the Lilo Steven includes, but maybe its
> other benefits will tilt the scales in its favor.
>
> James

Something easier than LILO would be nice as an add-on package.  How big is 
the LILO on the 2-floppy BL3.40?  How big is syslinux (which David used to 
set up a 1-floppy USB linux)?

Sindi