Alternative booting

David Krings ramons at gmx.net
Sun Aug 19 13:06:18 UTC 2007


Chris Jones wrote:
>> Too bad that there isn't a way to make Linux load from ntloader.
> 
> I don't see any advantages at all. As you have said, windows still had to make 
> sure 'something' was before the bios limit. In the case of windows this is 
> ntloader. I don't see any real difference between windows placing ntloader 
> where it can be read, and linux placing /boot. Essentially both boil down to 
> the same thing.

I meant that more down the line of saving the hassle with two 
bootloaders on a dual-boot box. Not that the one does anything 
better/different/worse than the other. IMHO both are gosh darn stupid. 
All these isssues shouldn't even exist.

David




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