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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> skribis: |
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>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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>> <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> > (When I had a machine dual-booting to MSDOS and Slackware, I used the |
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>> > DOS MBR and wrote LILO into the boot record of a Linux partition.) |
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>> When I dual-booted OS/2 and Slackware, I installed LILO to a floppy |
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>> disk. Floppy in drive at boot = linux, floppy ejected = OS/2. :) |
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> At first I used floppy, according to the installation instructions, |
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> but this was slow and so then for a few years I booted into MSDOS and |
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> then ran whatever the kernel-loader for DOS was called. After some |
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> experience with LILO at work I switched over to LILO. |
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loadlin? something like that. The good old days. :) |
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I stuck with LILO up until about 2 years ago. I finally gave in and |
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switched to grub and never looked back... I should have done it long |
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ago. |
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