Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:41:14 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.93.. |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this will help, but my $0.02's worth here is my > understanding of the steps involved in booting up an IBM PC clone...
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> 4. BIOS loads head 0, track 0, sector 1 into memory and runs whatever > it finds there. This is presumably LILO. > > If this is the case, then all that's required is for LILO to know > which disk it was loaded off, and label that disk as being the boot > disk... > > Since this is so simple, I'm obviously missing something, so please > tell me what - I hate it when I do...
LILO loads the kernel, at which point LILO stops running and is evicted from memory...
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