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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.014215.11539@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Sep14.114513.21477@colorado.edu> <1992Sep14.200938.25497@unislc.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:42:15 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Sep14.200938.25497@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- >Drew Eckhardt (drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
- >
- >: In article <1992Sep14.043836.11320@udel.edu> golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden) writes:
- >:
- >: > First, how do I make 0.97 boot completely from the hard disk? I'd like to
- >:
- >: Install the master boot record of your choice, and either
- >: LILO or Shoelace.
- >
- >I tried using LILO and shoelace, but found them to be too complicated, so
- >what *I* do is to boot MSDOS, then use bootlin to boot the kernel from the
- >MSDOS partition. I haven't had any problems with it, and I don't have to
- >screw with my partition table. Works for me.
- >
- >I don't know why more people aren't using bootlin, since it has less impact
- >on the system than anything else I've seen.
-
- My reasons for using LILO instead of DOS+bootlin
-
- a) it's a hell of a lot faster
-
- b) I can have more flexible configurations (I now have entries
- for the most recent kernel with root=/dev/hdb2, the most
- recent kernel with root=floppy, the previous version with
- root=/dev/hdb2, the previous version with root=floppy, and DOS.
-
- c) my linux stuff and DOS stuff are completely seperate (no
- copying images of the kernel onto my DOS partitions)
-
- d) problems with bootlin not zero'ing BSS (or something similar),
- which LILO does.
-
- e) I don't like DR DOS's config.sys configuration stuff and don't
- want to register AutoCon when LILO is free.
-
- Since I boot DOS so rarely, I see no reason to have to ever boot into
- DOS, even just to bootstrap Linux, especially since that adds another
- step for errors to appear.
-
- LILO is very easy and safe to use, if you simply follow the directions.
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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