Subject: Re: More VS2000 booting problems
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/31/1997 15:06:35
Lilo is no bootloader.

Lilo is a horrible mess consisting of 

- a boot partition selector
- a boot loader
- a program to configure both former components.

Linux people are notoriously weak in understanding what happens, and
distinguishing between the three... partially, because all of them are
referred to as "LILO". (Actually, there is an early paper about LILO
which explains the details of i386 machine booting very well, but it
looks like nobody, including CD_ROM distribution makers and install
script writers, reads it.)

And, actually, after having a bad experience with LILO on a 3-OS
machine (Windows, NetBSD, Linux), I expelled LILO from providing the
bootselector (after saving the disk by using PFDISK from the
NetBSD-i386 distribution... no other partition editor, be it DOS FDISK
or LINUX FDISK, would dare to even look at the mess LILO (the
configuration program) had left behind.

Now I'm happily using OS-BS2.0B8, for selecting any of the three
OS's. OS-BS1.25 would work, too, if I had only one disk.

So, if you talk about LILO being Enhanced, specify first, what exactly
you are talking about. The Bootselector? (Do we need one on VAX?) The
bootloader itself? (Now, I'm pretty sure we don't need it...) The
configuration program?

	-is