On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:54:17 -0500 Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've also posted this to a distro specific list. > I would appreciate feedback from a wider audience. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+lilo is mediocre at best ;) > OK, so it yields ~5.5 million hits > Are "floppy disks" and "16 bits" best Linux can do ;/ LOL Hmm, doing a "+linux +lilo +doc" Google search gave me four hits. :-) The only one that seems to be what you're looking for is <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html> > I suspect from what I've read already that I'll want either > LILO or GRUB-Legacy. It might help if we knew what kind of Linux setup you were working with. Is there a reason you want to go with the old boot loaders? Even Fedora has finally gone to Grub2. :-) > And just to horrify the youngsters - "high speed PAPER tape" ;/ > [I'll not mention vacuum tubes ;] Oooh, high speed paper tape. Such fond memories of booting the PDP-11 at work off of a Remex reader-punch that had no takeup reel. It was designed to make a mess on the floor. :-) And core memory! DVST terminals! Toggling the boot loader into the system from the front panel switches! 300 baud acoustic-coupler modems! (Is that horrific enough, do you think?) --Dale -- "Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..." _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
