lilo = x86 silo = sparc milo = alpha Bootloaders & the entire boot strapping process hafta be arch specific. silo works with the sun boot rom, milo with the arc console.
Wil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niels M�ller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Maurizio Boriani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:09 AM Subject: Re: H1 images - comments and questions. > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My understanding is that GRUB only works on i386 at the moment, which is > > great for the Hurd, but not for Linux with multiple architectures. > > Lilo is also x86 only, as far as I know. At least debian sparc uses a > sparcspecific bootloader, Silo (BTW, Silo and Grub have some > similarities, and I think it would be a good thing to merge them). I > don't know about other architectures, but I suspect they also don't > use lilo. > > Regards, > /Niels > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
