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    SubjectRe: Kernels > 1M
    George wrote:
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    > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    >
    > >I guess I find that a bit hard to believe... it seems that if you want
    > >to automate it it would be a lot easier and cleaner to use LILO, and not
    > >a disk in the drive. For boot disks I personally want access to the
    > >kernel command line, hence I use SYSLINUX (but I'm biased, of course!)
    >
    > Those of us trying to boot Linux from 'hdd' or past the 1 GB mark find
    > disks handy to. Not my computer, but others I have worked with that are
    > running the other operating system too and thus cannot change to not need
    > the disk.
    >
    > -George Greer

    That's not the point, though; the point is that there are cleaner ways
    to do it than the old bootloader.

    -hpa

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