Re: GRUB
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 07:14:37PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg was heard to say:
> > In article <cistron.19990908130300.A558@bluegreen.dhis.org>,
> > Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> wrote:
> > > -> It groks filesystems.
> > >
> > > FWIW, I think that GRUB should be the standard bootloader for Debian
> > >eventually.
> >
> > H. Peter Anvin (aka "hpa") is writing a new bootloader for Linux that
> > will do things like this as well and it might be less, well, "clunky"
> > (at least that's the feel I got from GRUB). If you want to change the
> > default bootloader after potato gets released which is a few months
> > away anyway it might be worth checking out this project by that time.
> >
> > Mike.
>
> Interesting. Is there information about it posted somewhere?
The boot loader from H. Peter Anvin is known as genesis. Snapshots are
available at ftp://ftp.zytor.com/pub/linux/.
The mailing list is over at syslinux@linux.kernel.org (sorry, couldn't find
any archives)
And in case you are bored, HPA's personal web site is over at
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/ (damned if I know what Zytor does).
Jordan
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- Re: GRUB
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- From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
- Re: GRUB
- From: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>