>>>>> "Erik" == Erik B Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the Christoph> prompt and also the ability to boot something with a Christoph> single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo Christoph> package and provide a decent configuration then lilo Christoph> could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies Christoph> are no longer irritated. >> >> I'll have a look at this. >> Christoph> Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the Christoph> bootdisks?? >> >> As someone else already said, this would be a bad idea, since the advantage >> of syslinux is its DOS support. >> Erik> My wife likes chos because it offers a nice simple and friendly Erik> and obvious like Windoze type of menu that lets her use the arrow Erik> keys to move a color menu bar onto the (unmentionable OS) selection Erik> a press enter. This is very easy, and requires no domestic fighting. Yes, I liked that feature of chos when I looked at it. Erik> I took a quick glance at the lilo 2.0 user's manual last night and Erik> I wasn't convinced that the "message" feature was going to be a Erik> nice simple and friendly and obvious like Windoze type of replacement. Erik> chos is much better than booting Linux using loadlin from a certain Erik> unmentionable OS, (which is how I used to not freak out my wife). Erik> If the "message" feature of lilo 2.0 can make lilo as Erik> friendly as chos, fine, I will use it. I doubt I will be making a No, it certainly won't do that. :( Erik> switch really soon though. How hard would it be to hack bzImage Erik> support into chos? That is the only real problem with chos, right? Well, I have pretty specific requirements (which meant I had been using lilo 17 until lately when 20 came out) - I need the feature which can "hide" one DOS partition when you select another. Erik> Are there any other features lacking from it that make it unusable Erik> by Debian? I can certainly attest to the fact that this is one Erik> piece of software that passes the wife test! I also believe that it can't/won't load its second-stage loader from the second hard drive (i.e. BIOS drive 0x81). This really should be a simple fix, however. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .