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?
>
> rday

This is my understanding.  If it read /etc/lilo.conf then we would
not need to run lilo, correct?

Bret



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