In short, when you turn on your PC Lilo comes up and asks you which of
the operating systems you have installed do you want to boot this time?

Sherpa Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hutchinson [mailto:phutchinson@IMTRA.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Fdisk & 2 Primary disks
>
>
> > >Or use lilo.
> >
> > What is lilo?
>
> From the readme for lilo:
>
> "LILO is a versatile boot loader for Linux. It does not depend on a
> specific file system, can boot Linux kernel images from
> floppy disks and
> from hard disks and can even act as a "boot manager" for
> other operating
> systems.*
>
>   *  PC/MS-DOS, DR DOS, OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT, 386BSD,
> SCO UNIX,
>     Unixware, ...
>
> One of up to sixteen different images can be selected at boot
> time. Various
> parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each
> kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record."
>
> Paul
>
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