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Charlie Brady (cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au) wrote:
: On 16 Jan 1997, Graeme Woodward wrote:
: > I also use the OS/2 boot manager.   It is much more user friendly than
: > Lilo (you just select your OS from a menu using arrow keys, and it
: > can be set up to auto-boot a default after so many seconds).
: 
: LILO can also draw a boot menu and can autoboot a default after so many
: seconds. AFAIK, you can't use the arrow keys, but if you can't follow
: on-screen instructions and type a single word or number, then maybe Linux
: isn't for you.

With all due respect, that's a silly response. If menus and GUIs are
for real men, and not for Linux users, why do we have X, dialog,
etc? I can't see any harm in using OS/2 Boot Manager -- it lets you
select an OS in a couple of arrow keys and <enter>, instead of
typing out a word. Has nice names for partitions, too.
And you still get the kernel command line, because you get
BootMan to boot LILO for Linux.


hamish


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