Re: Booting Linux without LILO

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From: Scott Barker
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00

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You could run lilo on the floppy. That way, all that gets loaded from floppy
is the lilo boot loader -- the kernel would be on your hard drive.

You could also use loadlin from DOS.

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Scott Barker
Linux Consultant
barkers@cuug.ab.ca
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/   (under construction)

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