Boot loaders

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Thanks for the thought, Bob.  My personal hardware is just not quite 
enough to run virtualy machines well enough to mess with.  Usually 
Win9x is only a gaming thing, or testing something for work, so dual 
boot is easy to do.  Even other kernels is not a big problem, just 
copy/paste/edit in vi and run lilo after I save the lilo.conf.  If my 
son ever upgrades and I get his AMD 700, I'll look at the virtual 
maching stuff again, cause it sounds very cool!

-Greg

> Have you looked into other options such as UML (User Mode Linux) or
> Plex86? The first is good for testing various Linux Kernels and or
> Distributions. The second allows other Operating Systems in a virtual
> machine. Simular to Win4Lin and VMWare. just a though! Bob
> 
> Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> 
> > I checked out the docs, and can't see any big advantage of grub over
> > lilo, or the other way around.  Grub actually looks a little harder
> > to configure for complex multiple os setups.  It could be that I've
> > used lilo for so long that I'm too used to it, and hence a little
> > prejudiced.  
> > 
> > I don't need to "chainload" Win9x w/ lilo, just edit lilo.conf to
> > point to the correct partition.  Slackware install will ask you if
> > you want to add any windows/dos os's it finds on the system to lilo
> > and then set up very intelligent defaults for it.  Grub looks like
> > it will be easier to set things up if you decide to install M$ stuff
> > AFTER you do a Linux, but it still looks like a royal pain!  I like