[NTLUG:Discuss] multiple distros on one system

[Bug Hunter]

> 
> As I understand LILO, you only ever get to issue one command, and that
> command must be one that is already in your lilo.conf file.  As you
> correctly point out, you can modify that command by passing values to
> it. Once you've issued it, you don't return to the commandline: either
> your machine boots, or LILO freezes.
> 
> Understanding filesystems strikes me as a significant desideratum in a
> bootloader. GRUB has it and LILO doesn't.
> 

  You are correct, multisyllable words notwithstanding. :)  What you doing
on THIS list??? <grin>

desideratum (d-sd-rtm, -r-)
n. pl. desiderata (-t) 
Something considered necessary or highly desirable: The point is not that
the artist has penetrated the character of his sitter, that commonplace
desideratum of portraiture (Robert Hughes).