Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/11:45:52
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.
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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com
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