On 2014-06-25 03:52, Linda Walsh wrote:
lilo uses the kernel I/O routines to support the lowest common denominator.
Actually, no. It uses BIOS calls.
I don't ever play around in grub. When I make a new kernel, if it doesn't work, I book from the previous. No editing in a special limited console prompt.
Provided it is in the same location as it was previously, sector by sector. Try making a copy and boot that, without running lilo. Lilo needed to create a 'map' file, which was used to create the code to load the kernel and files later. This code was not stored in the filesystem, same as grub does, but it was much smaller. This code had hardcoded the locations of the sectors where the kernel and stuff was stored in the filesystem. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)