On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:17:52PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
>
> a simple question about LILO. in the recent book
> "Linux System Security," there is a short section on
> LILO which contains the sentence:
>
> "LILO reads the /etc/lilo.conf configuration file
> at boot time."
>
> to the best of my knowledge, this isn't true. the
> information in /etc/lilo.conf is placed in the MBR,
> and is also references by the MBR, as a result of
> running "lilo".
>
> as far as i know, /etc/lilo.conf plays no part
> whatever in the actual boot process. yes or no?
Correct. The only time /etc/lilo.conf is read is when you execute
/sbin/lilo.
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