From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199909152310.BAA15260@denx.local.net> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: New booter Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:37:35 -0800." Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:10:08 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message Ethan Benson wrote: > [about LILO]: > it boots very cleanly on x86, booting linux instead of windows is > complete non issue there. > > BIOS loads the bootblock from boot disk or if one does not exist it > looks for a partition marked bootable in the partition table and > loads the bootblock from that. the BIOS knows NOTHING about ANY > filesystem not ext2 not FAT, NTFS, DOSfs, not HFS. lilo works > wonderfully, and does not require its very own partition in a > specific filesystem format to work. *I* think this is a very clean > way to boot it allows the replacement of the filesystem without > anything more then a update to lilo at most. not a whole new machine Furthermore, LILO provides with a lot of interesting options rarely used but very powerful (and *very* useful for embedded systems): password protection, selection of alternate boot arguments with automatic fallback if booting fails etc. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/