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SubjectRe: How to upgrade RedHat 5.0 kernel?
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"Matthew D. Pitts" <mpitts@suite224.net> writes:

> boot.b is the boot sector information that lilo saves when you install it.
> boot.1603 is a backup of this ( I think ).

From the lilo documentation (/usr/doc/lilo-*/README on Red Hat):

The boot sector contains the first part of LILO's boot loader. It loads
the much larger second-stage loader. Both loaders are typically stored
in the file /boot/boot.b

and

Whenever the map installer updates a boot sector, the original boot sector
is copied to /boot/boot.<number>, where <number> is the hexadecimal device
number. If such a file already exists, no backup copy is made. Similarly, a
file /boot/part.<number> is created if LILO modifies the partition table.
(See "General per-image options".)

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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