[Gllug] lilo

[Nix]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, David Damerell spake:
> Quite. LILO doesn't understand the filesystem, it just knows where the
> file is on the hard disc. It's worth noting that MILO and possibly
> some other non-x86 tools have enough brains to understand a
> filesystem, so this isn't necessary.

Correct; silo is smart enough too, and so is GRUB and, well, basically
everything except for lilo, as far as I know.

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Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
                        -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming

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