Re: H1 images - comments and questions.
lilo = x86
silo = sparc
milo = alpha
Bootloaders & the entire boot strapping process hafta be arch specific.
silo works with the sun boot rom, milo with the arc console.
Wil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niels Möller" <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
To: "Philip Charles" <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>
Cc: "Maurizio Boriani" <baux@debian.org>; <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: H1 images - comments and questions.
> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
>
> > My understanding is that GRUB only works on i386 at the moment, which is
> > great for the Hurd, but not for Linux with multiple architectures.
>
> Lilo is also x86 only, as far as I know. At least debian sparc uses a
> sparcspecific bootloader, Silo (BTW, Silo and Grub have some
> similarities, and I think it would be a good thing to merge them). I
> don't know about other architectures, but I suspect they also don't
> use lilo.
>
> Regards,
> /Niels
>
>
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