On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mukund wrote:
> How the /dos/boot directory will be available before kernel boots up.
> A small correction here.
> Boot in to dos partition and run loadlin.
jiju showed a way by which it could be done ( and possibly thats the
way it is done ), before that post, the above did seem to be a chicken..egg.
The idea is, when lilo is run, it stores the *physical* track where
vmlinuz is located. And now if one ensures vmlinuz is always (re)written
*contiguously* then the tasks done.
-- sreangsu
p.s. time for me to go over /usr/doc/lilo*
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