In any case, eventhough my assembly language skills are reasonably current (Alpha and now Itanium), I don't want to go back to the pain of reading x86 assembly language, so I'll defer to you as the expert. The bottom line is that with the current versions of LILO, you do not need a /boot partition. One good reason to include a /boot is that it is a low use partition, and less prone to corruption. You only need to mount it when you are rebuilding and/or installing a new kernel. On 3 Sep 2002 at 20:59, Anders Johansson wrote:
That's a possibility of course. As I read the source (and I should point out that my assembly really is rusty, so this could very well be wrong) lilo replaces int13 if you're booting from a disk other than the primary, and then only to switch the drive maps so it'll look like the first, followed by a call to the original int13.
This is the only place I can find where int13 is replaced (this is in chain.S), but as I say it could be wrong. Corrections are welcome if I am.
//Anders
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