Re: Q: Will the new Lilo be included into potato?

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Subject: Re: Q: Will the new Lilo be included into potato?
From: Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>
Date: 28 Apr 2000 21:46:26 +0200
Message-id: <87u2gmgga5.fsf@hoss.orcus.priv.at>
In-reply-to: Ben Gertzfield's message of "28 Apr 2000 08:29:21 -0700"
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Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

> The new LILO *must* be included in potato; Linux is unusable on
> about 25% of the systems I've tried without it. (You have to use a
> boot floppy or put your kernel under 1024 sectors, which is
> unacceptable for dual-boot systems).

So you find all of the following solutions unacceptable?

* using a boot floppy
* having a small /boot partition before any non-Linux stuff
* using a loader different from Lilo

-- 
Robbe

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