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

[Bug Hunter]

 it is merged into lilo itself when you run lilo from the command line,
and then placed into the boot record on your bootable disk

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:

> 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.
>