On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:44:08PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote:
> LILO maintains an *absolute* record of where any kernel is located.
The filesystem has to tell LILO, how it allocated the "vmlinuz" file
on the disk. Therefore, LILO works with only those filesystems, which
have this (rather unnecessary, IMO) capability.
Most other OSes (including FreeBSD) come with a loader which can read
the filesystem.
-Arun
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