LILO (fwd)
Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:47:37 -0400 (EDT)
> Lilo depends upon files being at the same place they were when it was
> configured. It saves the absolute sectors of certain files, rather
> than decipher a filesystem. That is why you must re-run lilo
> everytime you build a new kernel, since it may be in a new place.
> This also applies if you move any of the map, boot.b, etc files.
If anyone has some spare time (do such people exist?) it would make a
nice project for someone to change LILO so that it operated more like
silo, milo, or aboot. These linux boot loaders for the sparc and alpha
load a second stage boot loader which can understand the file system,
thus you don't have to rerun LILO every time you want to boot a new kernel.
Just a thought,
Jim