On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> skribis: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Barry Schwartz >> <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: >> > (When I had a machine dual-booting to MSDOS and Slackware, I used the >> > DOS MBR and wrote LILO into the boot record of a Linux partition.) >> >> When I dual-booted OS/2 and Slackware, I installed LILO to a floppy >> disk. Floppy in drive at boot = linux, floppy ejected = OS/2. :) > > At first I used floppy, according to the installation instructions, > but this was slow and so then for a few years I booted into MSDOS and > then ran whatever the kernel-loader for DOS was called. After some > experience with LILO at work I switched over to LILO.
loadlin? something like that. The good old days. :) I stuck with LILO up until about 2 years ago. I finally gave in and switched to grub and never looked back... I should have done it long ago.
