> I'm not sure whether this will help, but my $0.02's worth here is my
> understanding of the steps involved in booting up an IBM PC clone...
[snip]
> 4. BIOS loads head 0, track 0, sector 1 into memory and runs whatever
> it finds there. This is presumably LILO.
>
> If this is the case, then all that's required is for LILO to know
> which disk it was loaded off, and label that disk as being the boot
> disk...
>
> Since this is so simple, I'm obviously missing something, so please
> tell me what - I hate it when I do...
LILO loads the kernel, at which point LILO stops running
and is evicted from memory...
Rik.
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