From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:38:49 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CF5F329.F0B109B9@dit.upm.es> References: <20020529163451.S61136-100000@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux 8086 Cc: Dan Olson Dan Olson wrote: > > Well, that's beyond my knowledge, but I would think that a simple boot > loader would be somewhat generic and almost not even ELKS related. Should > I give LILO a try again? Maybe tonight if I have time. > It is not exactly OS independant. You need to create an /etc/lilo.conf file, and the run "lilo" to install the bootloader in the MBR (or where you want). So the bootloader code is OS independant (and mostly asembler, I suppose), but the lilo program is not. Anyway, it doesn't mean it can not work ;-) -- when i do cat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio , I can hear the voice of God. -------- Javier Sedano Jarillo http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano jsedano@dit.upm.es (*) jsedano@ieee.org