On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:23, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:38:33PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >/dev/kmem unusable. That, he says, will break lilo (I can't use GRUB as > >it doesn't support booting off RAID devices properly) > > Hmm. Seems to work here.
It seems that lilo code run in real mode puts some special data below 640K, and then the lilo installer which runs from Linux accesses /dev/mem to read it. Whether this information is required depends on which lilo options you use. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
