Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:24:22 -0600 (CST) From: Adrian Oboroc To: root AT capslock DOT com cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: LILO & Co Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII root wrote >On 18 Jan 1997, G.P. Tootell wrote: > >> |> Problem 1: The boot sector loads the kernel so to boot from the opendos >> |> kernel, it would have to be called something else instead of MSDOS.SYS and >> |> IO.SYS. I assume it will be DRDOS.SYS and DRIO.SYS or OPENDOS.SYS, >> |> OPENIO.SYS. However this still leaves the problem of the bootsector >> |> loading the kernel. Looks like we're going to be installing LILO or some >> |> other boot manager. >> |> >> |> That brings me to a question I've been wanting to ask now for quite some >> |> time. What bootloaders are out there that are better than LILO? I hate >> |> LILO because it is too simple, plain and unfriendly. I'd prefer a WHITE >> |> on BLUE menu to pop up that lists all installed OS's. Comments? >> >> it would be nice to replace that annoying win95 menu thing i get with all those >> useless options for 'safe mode' and such with a nice menu that just said 'msdos, >> linux or opendos' as you say, lilo is usable but not the nicest of options. > >Yah, it doesn't need to be a GUI or anything rediculous like that either. >Just something like the DOS 6.22 startup menu would be fine. Preferably >with an interactive program to configure the options instead of editing a >file too. Shouldn't be too hard for someone to make one. I've heard of >commercial programs that do this, however I cant justify spending $50 for >code that fits on my bootsector. Silliness. Actualy, System Commander (if you mean it) doesn't fit into bootsector. Bootsector only calls a *.sys file (without any kind of OSes it know how to work with FAT filesystem). This proggy has a lot of very usefull features, it includes on-line menu editor, new os autodetection and so on. I don't want to convinse you to bye this program, because it cost a lot, and even I use a pirate copy, but it is a *realy good* program, so please don't flame it. If you don't like SC, you can use Boot Manager from OS/2 Warp 3.0 or 4.0. It's also nice program, but it's not too flexsible and attractive. But for shure it's better then LILO (yuck)