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Before LILO
Booting from floppy
(by using dd to copy kernel to floppy)
shoelace
(a Minix tool, never compiled under Linux)
Notes:
In the earliest days of Linux, we used
to boot from a kernel which had been
copied (using dd or something similar)
to a floppy disk.
At some stage, we got shoelace to
boot Linux kernels. Shoelace was a
Minix tool which we never actually got
to compile under Linux. But it let us
boot Linux without a floppy disk. Then
Werner Almesberger wrote LILO, and
we had our first native linux kernel boot
loader.