If no active partition is found, um, I don't remember what happened then.
And I wonder what the hell does compaq with those `on-partition' BIOSes.
> 4. BIOS loads head 0, track 0, sector 1 into memory and runs whatever
> it finds there. This is presumably LILO.
Not necessarily.. you can have LILO on a floppy, LILO on the MBR, or LILO
on a partition's boot sector.
[1] That is, unless you have `reordered' your drives in the BIOS.
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