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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>alpha@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Linux Alpha Development</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| On Intel based PC systems, the BIOS firmware sets up the system and |
| then loads the image to be run from the boot block of a DOS file |
| system. This is more or less what MILO does on an Alpha based system, |
| however there are several interesting differences between BIOS firmware |
| and MILO, not least of which is that MILO includes and uses standard |
| Linux device drivers unmodified. MILO is firmware, unlike LILO, which |
| relies on the BIOS firmware to get itself loaded. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |