Re: Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:45:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? no. lilo cannot read filesystems. The inverse is what is s good about grub. > Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot > sectors?

Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot sectors? I assume it's not read while booting. I'm trying to understand the "disk", "boot", and "root" options in lilo.conf and when they are used (i.e. are the