Re: [tlug] Sorry to Hijack a thread but whats wrong with LILO

[Patrick Niessen <patrick.niessen@example.com>]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 13:31, David Blomberg wrote:
> >>Watch it, your linux prejudice is showing. So you want them to stick
> >>to
> >>"standard" names? GRUB loads a lot of OSes so which standard names did
> >>you have in mind:
> >>
> >>solaris: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
> >>netbsd:  /dev/wd0a
> >>dos:            c:
> >>WinNT:  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
>
> Mattsan,
>
> OKay time to show my ignorance but GRUB is a GNU project--GNU primary OS
> of interest is Linux (or HURD for a few) so the standard as defined by
> their primary OS of interest;)
>
> Linux Bias absolutely!!!!!
>

Unfortunately a dogma provides a very poor and unconvincing argument ...

Patrick