Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 16, 2006 02:29 AM
Your method is really strange to me. I don't mean I doubt your method, I believe you know what you are talking about.
The problem is, the syntax is awful to me. For a boot loader, most people expect it getting the kernel images from raw partition, instead of mounted filesystem.
Isn't it more intuitive if the syntax is '/dev/hda3/boot/vmlinuz-xxx'? Why, after so many years of causing pain to Linux users, Lilo still insists its stange syntax? I guess that's why every major distributions abandon it.
By the way, I doubt Lilo is cable of booting BSD family OS. But I konw for sure GRUB can do it.
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Re:Don't Chainload Because!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 16, 2006 02:29 AMThe problem is, the syntax is awful to me. For a boot loader, most people expect it getting the kernel images from raw partition, instead of mounted filesystem.
Isn't it more intuitive if the syntax is '/dev/hda3/boot/vmlinuz-xxx'? Why, after so many years of causing pain to Linux users, Lilo still insists its stange syntax? I guess that's why every major distributions abandon it.
By the way, I doubt Lilo is cable of booting BSD family OS. But I konw for sure GRUB can do it.
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