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Message-Id: <199702051621.AA21908@mail.crl.com>
From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: RE: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:19:56 -0600
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Nicholas R LeRoy <nleroy AT norland DOT com> wrote:

>                                               Seems *TOO* obvious to
>me that that's what we really want.  Build the OpenDOS kernel such that
>it understand command line options, etc. like the Linux kernel, and have
>the lilo (odlo?) load the kernel from there.  The only thing we really
>need that we don't have is a boot sector in the partition (you can't
install
>lilo on a FAT filesystem) -- obviously an EXT2 would work.

I'm of the opinion that we don't need YABL (Yet Another Boot Loader) for
OpenDOS.  Grub does a just fine job booting MS-DOS, OpenDOS, Linux, and
Windows 95.  If you don't know grub, it's basically lilo, but can be used
without Linux.
--
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com

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