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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed
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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

by Bill Ball, David Pitts
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Sams
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Choosing and Installing a Boot Manager

Simple boot managers, such at PowerQuest's BootMagic, offer a convenient menu or graphical interface used to boot to different operating systems. Other boot managers, such as LILO and LOADLIN, have more advanced features that may be critical to a successful boot and may be a necessary ingredient in your boot strategy. If your computer's hardware requires pre-boot configuration, or if the Linux kernel needs to know critical information about your computer's hardware before, during, or after the boot process, you may need to use one of these bootloaders' special features in order to boot Linux.

For example, the LOADLIN command is used from the DOS command prompt to load the Linux kernel. LOADLIN, like LILO, ...

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