Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> 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.

LILO isn't that bad.  Just because it isn't your traditional Unix
bootloader and it does multiple things doesn't mean that it's a horrible
mess.  I haven't ever had problems using it as my OS selector and it has
some neat features for x86 such as allowing you to boot from the second
floppy drive.

[snip]
> 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?

Well, I've very happy with the NetBSD bootloader.  At first glance it
may seem very lacking in features compared to LILO.  However, you don't
need those features on VAXen, and the implementation is very elegant
compared to LILO.  I like the fact that it understands the filesystem
and can load any file.  I don't think that more time should be wasted on
LILO-like features.  More practical and useful things would be the
ability to net-boot more VAXen.

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