Re: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted

Taral (taral@cyberjunkie.com)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:18:12 -0600

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Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> Time = money + free
> time, so having to boot with a boot floppy to get a LILO damaged machine
> back up, then reinstall LILO, and then reboot again so that the boot loader
> could redetect the correct amount of memory to pass to the kernel could easy
> add downtime costing Linux users both precious time and $.

Take a look at GRUB. It can load itself from a floppy, then boot the kernel
from virtually anywhere (including finding it as a file in an ext2 filesystem).

I use it, and have never had to touch it since :)
http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/

Taral

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