Interrupts needed by LILO
M Carling
m at midgard.net
Thu Nov 26 17:49:04 CET 1998
> I thought, a main topic for OpenBIOS development is full access to the
> hard drives so there is no trouble with large disks, large partitions and
> kernels laying somewhere on them.
Perhaps I'm confused. Shouldn't OpenBIOS be able implement the functionality
of LILO? I thought that LILO existed because BIOS16 are incapable of loading
anything that isn't DOS-like. Doesn't LILO look to the BIOS like DOS? In
other words, when a BIOS is loading LILO, doesn't it "think" it's loading
DOS?
> I thought, a main topic for OpenBIOS development is full access to the
> hard drives so there is no trouble with large disks, large partitions and
> kernels laying somewhere on them.
That sounds right. So why have a new LILO? Why not just not need LILO
anymore?
M
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