Choosing and Installing a Boot Manager
Simple boot managers, such at PowerQuest's BootMagic, offer a convenient menu or graphical interface used to boot to different operating systems. Other boot managers, such as LILO and LOADLIN, have more advanced features that may be critical to a successful boot and may be a necessary ingredient in your boot strategy. If your computer's hardware requires pre-boot configuration, or if the Linux kernel needs to know critical information about your computer's hardware before, during, or after the boot process, you may need to use one of these bootloaders' special features in order to boot Linux.
For example, the LOADLIN command is used from the DOS command prompt to load the Linux kernel. LOADLIN, like LILO, ...
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