Um, actually, neither. COMMAND.COM is the DOS shell- i.e. bash
equivalent. COMMAND.COM is, however, much more limited. The equivalent
to autoexec.bat & config.sys would be startup scripts- the /etc/rc.d
directory tree. LILO is a boot manager- there's no real equivalent to it
for DOS, because DOS is, well, lame. LILO chooses which of the kernels
you have on your system to boot. You can't have, much less boot,
multiple kernels in DOS. LILO also has the ability to load boot sectors
from any partition off any hard drive. DOS's MBR loads only the boot
sector off the active partition; it cannot handle multiple PRIMARY
partitions, much less multiple bootable (active) partitions. LILO, on the
other hand, can even boot from logical drives inside extended partitions.
That, as little and incorrect as it may be, is my two cents...
-Matt Stegman
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote:
> Actually it's closer to the linux equivalent of DOS's 'COMMAND.COM'.
>
> - Theo
>
> Joseph Gardner wrote:
> >
> > Ok, ok I get the point. It's the linux equivalent of DOS's config.sys and
>autoexec.bat, right.
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:31 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]
> >
> > Joseph Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me
> > 8-))
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joseph Gardner
> > Senior Designer / Technical Support
> > Kirby Company
> > Cleveland, OH
> >
> > >From a command line just type: lilo
> >
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