Pixel wrote:
>
> Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Pixel wrote:
> > >
> > > Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > nuni is a boot loader for Linux, using ext2 file system and IDE drives.
> > > >
> > > > sound nice, pixel ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > grub does the same, and it *does* handle scsi :ppp
> >
> > I was unaware that grub would boot above 1023 on pre-existing machines
> > (the ones that people try to install linux on). I thought it depended
> > on the extended bios to do this. The latest version of lilo also
> > detects and uses extended bios calls.
>
> ok, i should have shut up :)
>
> i saw the extended bios handling in grub, but not in lilo (not the latest
> version maybe)
It's lilo version 22, but it might not be released. The extended bios
stuff was added by another programmer other than Werner, and the last I
heard he was trying to get Werner to adopt it as version 22. I've seen
postings referring to lilo22, but it's not on metalab, so I'm not sure.
> you do have a point, i agree! isn't the extended bios call available on most
> modern boxes?
I don't know how widespread it is; I haven't figured out a way to find
out. I'm just fed up with bios's. I have one PC whose bios can not
write correctly to a floppy, so it is impossible to make a boot disk
with rawrite (this was my only PC back when I first installed Linux).
Neil.
p.s. I'll be gone for the weekend, so if there's more discussion on
this I won't be able to participate til later.
