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Maybe it's just me, but I like the idea of loadlin. You are given a choice between two OS, running on bare metal, without the dual-boot. You can instantly boot
by Koshkin 5y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I like the idea of loadlin. You are given a choice between two OS, running on bare metal, without the dual-boot. You can instantly boot up into DOS to do some quick experiment or something, and then you could load Linux when/if you need it.
- progman32 5y agoFor a while I had a grub entry with 'init=/bin/bash' for this purpose. Not a great idea for several reasons, but it was handy if my computer was off and I just needed to quickly copy a file onto USB or whatever.
- slim 5y agodos is your grub
- mastax 5y agoThere were a couple years (maybe 2008-2012) where retail PC motherboards came with embedded "instant boot" OS environments that nobody actually used.