Re: Re: lilo entry for Knoppix on hard disk.
>I am using grub4dos (grldr is a much improved variant of grub legacy)
>which also supports ntfs, pxe and cd boot with command line editing.
>The same binary can be used for multi boot from: dos, xp, win7, ...
>or simply from the mbr of the hdd. It has tons a very nice features as graphical
>menus, auto-completion, iso/floppy/disk emulation, ramdisk boot, chainload,
>and overall it is one of the best boot loader in my opinion. I like to see grub4dos
>replace isolinux on the next Knoppix release as it could be used to rescue
>systems already from the boot loader... (or at least have it as a boot option from isolinux)
>cf: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/list
That sounds very reasonable to me. One of the effects of constantly switching between 4 bootloaders (syslinux, lilo, grub, grub2) is that I don't get much insight and proficiency in any of them. And if one single distro should be geared towards multi-booting in diverse environments, I guess that would be Knoppix. One direction to go, might be to create a utility script/programs that assisted with different alternatives, using grub4dos as the default. For example, I don't know if it is still possible, but in NT4 days I used to setup the NT bootloader to start up Linux. A utility program could assist/take care of such issues.
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