"Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>    > I just wish Linus would add an initial boot routine similiar to NetBSD
>    > where you can specify which kernel to use.
> 
>    That's what lilo is for.
> 
> Last I knew, LILO couldn't read an arbitrary file from the file system.

True, but it can record the locations of multiple (possibly
compressed) kernel images, and it allows you to choose between them
from the boot prompt.

	Mark
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