Alternative booting
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sun Aug 19 22:13:58 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:06 -0400, David Krings wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> >> Too bad that there isn't a way to make Linux load from ntloader.
> >
> > I don't see any advantages at all. As you have said, windows still had to make
> > sure 'something' was before the bios limit. In the case of windows this is
> > ntloader. I don't see any real difference between windows placing ntloader
> > where it can be read, and linux placing /boot. Essentially both boil down to
> > the same thing.
>
> I meant that more down the line of saving the hassle with two
> bootloaders on a dual-boot box. Not that the one does anything
> better/different/worse than the other. IMHO both are gosh darn stupid.
> All these isssues shouldn't even exist.
>
Perhaps you are right. Why don't you postulate a means to do the job
better, we can then critique it and maybe come up with something better
for Fedora?
Regards,
Les H
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