Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to upgrade RedHat 5.0 kernel? | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 07 Jul 1998 20:34:12 -0400 |
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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".)
-- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
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