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I always preferred LILO, since it always seemed to work, whereas GRUB aleays took an extra step back when I was using Gentoo in 2003
by guestbest 3y ago
I always preferred LILO, since it always seemed to work, whereas GRUB aleays took an extra step back when I was using Gentoo in 2003
- djbusby 3y agosyslinux FTW!
- sedatk 3y agoI loved how each letter in LILO would signify a boot phase when I learned about it the first time my PC got frozen at "LI".
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- gattilorenz 3y agoSimilarly, the kernel of Xenix used letters A to Z to indicate which stage of the initialization it had reached: https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/105420.html https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/105420.html Helpful for debugging issues. I assume this was common with other Unices.
- sedatk 3y agoOh, didn't know about that, pretty cool.