[plug] Another LILO issue, any ideas.

bk bk at bofh.ns.ca
Wed Jul 28 13:05:55 WST 1999


On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 02:12:05AM +0000, Christian wrote:
> Out of interest, can anyone recommend a good, free, all-round boot
> loader for booting a fairly large number of OS's? (Win9x, Linux, OpenBSD
> and Solaris - maybe more to come).  The FreeBSD people say theirs is
> really good and craps on LILO but I'm not intending to install
> FreeBSD... anyone got any comments?

Make sure the loader can handle the boot stuff on logical partitions. I
had a problem with lilo where linux was on a primary partition and nt on a
logical partition. win95/98 could boot nt but lilo couldn't.

-David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).


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