on 12:55 Thu 17 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (bss@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. > > It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. That is a DOS executable: LOADLIN.EXE. I'm not sure if the two were related or had a precursor/successor relationship. Useful for multi-booting Linux with Windows (DOS or NT-based) which I did briefly back in the day. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!
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