Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 1999 17:02:13 +0200 | From | Marc Mutz <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.x hang on boot |
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Kelvin Edwards wrote: > <snip> > I suspected as much. But how does the kernel get loaded and started without > accessing the drive through the SCSI driver ? > It uses the BIOS to load the blocks where the kernel image and other needed files are located, as determined by the /sbin/lilo run.
Marc
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