[Gllug] lilo

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 4 Sep 2001, t.clarke wrote:
>I believe one needs to run /sbin/lilo each and every time you copy a
>new kernel into /boot, even if its the same 'name' as a pre-existing one ??

Quite. LILO doesn't understand the filesystem, it just knows where the
file is on the hard disc. It's worth noting that MILO and possibly
some other non-x86 tools have enough brains to understand a
filesystem, so this isn't necessary.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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