Re: nature of a boot loader

2002-12-14 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Dai, Grub and LILO can both chainload to each other just like they can to a windows boot loader. You can have the other boot loader on another drive or at the beginning of a partition. I did just this to make things a little more pleasant to my wife, who is not hip to windows and finds some o

Re: nature of a boot loader

2002-12-14 Thread Dai Yuwen
Bruce Park wrote: Dai, My understanding with booting an OS works like this. The BIOS must first be set to detect something. In my computer, I have it boot in this order. 1. floppy 2. cdrom 3. primary hard disk This is pretty much self explanatory. Now once floppy and cdrom fail, it'll load wha