LILO vs. GRUB

Posted Jun 17, 2004 20:45 UTC (Thu) by HenryHartley (guest, #5630)
Parent article: LILO vs. GRUB

With reference to the statement, "Firstly, LILO has been around for so many years (I was unable to find out exactly how many, but LILO version 15 was released in October 1994)..." I found this on groups.google.com dated June 29, 1992:
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From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Subject: LILO - Generic boot loader (ALPHA TEST RELEASE)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: 1992-06-28 10:31:20 PST

A preliminary alpha test version of a generic (e.g. file-system-independent)
boot loader called LILO ("LInux LOader") is on banjo.concert.net,
/pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.0.tar.Z

You need a 0.96 kernel (patches are relative to 0.96b), any reasonably up
to date gcc and as86/ld86 to use it.

I've appended the advertising section of the README to this posting.

- Werner
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The full article is here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1992Jun28.233320.16842%40bernina.ethz.ch

--
Henry