>> 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...
Ah...perhaps LILO can be modified to say where it loaded the kernel
from, so as to give the kernel a clue as to which is the boot disk?
Best wishes from Riley.
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