Re: multi CPU's

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:57:11 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>:
>
> > Of course that's because of the kernel. The linux kernel source gzips
> > its output. bzImage...
> 
> On Intel, yes, but even on Intel you could install vmlinux.{gz|bz2}
> instead of bzImage and use GRUB instead of LILO, I think. Having the
> kernel decompress itself is clever, but somehow not very tidy.
> 

I had used GRUB last time when I had unssuccessfully tried to install
GNU Hurd 0.2 on my machine. Then it seemed to be useful only for the
Hurd. Can I use it for booting Linux reliably on i386? [I can hear RTFM]

Regards,

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exa