From: Michael Lankton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Booting the Hurd Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:05:37 -0500
> Why is it that linux requires LILO and the Hurd requires GRUB to boot? > I run Openstep and FreeBSD here at home, and in the past I have used > several BSD based systems and two System V systems, and all of them will > boot with any boot manager I've ever tried. That never be possible. Every operating systems needs a bootloader for itself. If you think there is no bootloader for Openstep or FreeBSD, you completely misunderstood them. > Sorry to digress, just really curious. Curiosity is important, but you should read some documents about bootstrap before asking. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
