[NTLUG:Discuss] fundas gone for a toss!!

[Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)]

Hi All,
    While recompiling the linux kernel yesterday i came across a fundamental
problem.
    The way LILO knows which partition to mount as root is by reading the
lilo.conf.
     When we specify the kernel to be booted the, first thing lilo does is
mounts the root partition. 
     This is specified as root = /dev/hdb10 (for example). 
     What i am wondering is.. to locate /dev/hdb10 file itself... / needs to
be mounted.. i.e. the root partition needs to be mounted before kernel can
start reading any file on that disk.

    How come then lilo can locate /dev/hdb10 before / is mounted.

Harshal.
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