Re: LILO Conf

[Vidiot <brown ftms COM>]

Gardy posted:

<Thanks to you all of you who responded. After carefully reading the man
<pages I realized that LILO needed to be run for any changes to take effect.
<
<My fatal assumption was that LILO read from the .conf file at boot time.

If you think about it, reading the lilo.conf at boot time would result in
a catch-22 situation.  If you changed the config file so that it now boots
Linux from a DIFFERENT hard drive, and or partition, how would the current
LILO know that?  So, the only way to tell LILO what the current configuration
is, is to rerun /sbin/lilo so that it rebuilds the boot sector info with
the latest information.

In any event, good the read that it is now working.

MB
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