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SubjectRe: 2.2.x hang on boot
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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