Re: [LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Narahari, Narasimhaiah (IE10)  [050819 11:51]:
> Sir,
>
> How do I use LILO to boot windows 2k?

The usual way is to use either NTLDR or grub. Lilo is obsolete.

http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/MS_Windows_NT_or.shtml
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html

Stefan

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Richard Smith]

> > How do I use LILO to boot windows 2k?
>
> The usual way is to use either NTLDR or grub. Lilo is obsolete.

IIRC I don't think grub works under the Bochs copy in LinuxBios but
its been awhile.  Adam?

I know for a fact that LILO does.  I don't think I'd call Lilo
obsolete yet.  I use it in some embedded setups where the BIOS has
issues with GRUB.

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:17:47AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> I don't think I'd call Lilo obsolete yet.
> I use it in some embedded setups where the BIOS has issues with
> GRUB.

Call me conservative, but I use LILO everywhere. GRUB has caused me
nothing but trouble while LILO has worked flawlessly since that day
many years ago when I first started using it.

//Peter

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Michal Szwaczko]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:04:37PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Call me conservative, but I use LILO everywhere. GRUB has caused me
> nothing but trouble while LILO has worked flawlessly since that day
> many years ago when I first started using it.

GRUB is much more flexible, and - if you read up a lot - it's easy.
I'd not say a word to you 2 years ago, because I was just that conservative 
and trusted lilo. Seems, the only hurdle was prejudice and wrong mindset
about GRUB. Since then, I use GRUB exclusively. So, maybe you should give it
a shot one more time.

Regards,

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:08:06PM +0200, Michal Szwaczko wrote:
> GRUB is much more flexible, and - if you read up a lot - it's easy.

I have had it set up on a couple of different systems and I think one
customer still has it, and configuration isn't the problem, while I
think it's totally stupid to invent a new naming scheme where a
common one already exists I don't have a problem adapting to it, but
my issues have been with reliability.
> I'd not say a word to you 2 years ago, because I was just that
> conservative and trusted lilo. Seems, the only hurdle was prejudice
> and wrong mindset about GRUB. Since then, I use GRUB exclusively.

I've tried it, so strike prejudice, but wrong mindset I'll admit to.
:)

The problem I had with reliability came from the fact that GRUB stage
1 loads stage 1.5 from fs, and if that fs got corrupted no OS could
be booted at all. I had to replace GRUB with MBR from DOS6 over the
phone with one person.
> So, maybe you should give it a shot one more time.

Some time, I surely will.

//Peter

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Adam Sulmicki]

> > > How do I use LILO to boot windows 2k?
> >
> > The usual way is to use either NTLDR or grub. Lilo is obsolete.
>
> IIRC I don't think grub works under the Bochs copy in LinuxBios but
> its been awhile.  Adam?

looking at :

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/agnew/agnew_html/

seems it was grub, but it mentions lilo would work too.

[LinuxBIOS] Using lilo

[Richard Smith]

> looking at :
>
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/agnew/agnew_html/
>
> seems it was grub, but it mentions lilo would work too.

Ah.. Ok.  I've got my wires crossed then.  Thinking on it a bit more I
believe its tinybios for the STPC that has the issue with grub.