Boot Loader Proposal

Bryan W. Headley bwheadley at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 21 19:05:19 UTC 2003


dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
> On Tuesday October 21, 2003 Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> 
>>[snip]
>>Here is what I propose:
>>
>>Grub and Syslinux remain in Core.  They will cover the mass majority of
>>the userbase, with minimal duplication.  Lilo shall be relegated to
>>Alternatives or Extras.  Lilo seems to have a smaller need base, but
>>still needs to be available.  This should satisfy the majority of the
>>people on this list right?
> 
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> I don't disagree. But I wonder if we aren't discussing soon-to-be-obsolete
> packages. With 64-bit machines now on the market and rumors of next
> generation BIOSes with OS-like capabilities in their own right, we could
> be better off sitting back and waiting to see what new stuff comes down
> the road in the next year or two.

Probably, no, the concept of these packages won't be obsoleted. The Dec 
Alpha came with a pretty sophisticated boot loader, and yet MILO had to 
be cobbled together for Linux. There's always something that needs to be 
done at bootstrap that wasn't anticipated by the BIOS writers.

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