Re: LILO (fwd)

Erik Andersen (andersee@debian.org)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 21:19:02 -0600

On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Darin Johnson wrote:
> > (I'd also like to see a bootmanager style menu,
>
> For a menu with LILO you need two things:
>
> - the MESSAGE file
> - the SINGLE-KEY option
>
> You can easily hack a little script that converts the output of lilo -q
> into a nice-looking menu that's written to the messages file. Put that
> script instead of /sbin/lilo and let it run the real /sbin/lilo at the
> end.
>
> Okay, you still don't get a cursor bar, boot-time configuration editing,
> etc.
>
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>
> - Werner
>

For a bootloader that _does_ give you a cool curser, and the option
of changing the command line at boot, etc. you should try out chos.
It is free, and available at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-Boot

-Erik

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