Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/20/2014 10:45 AM, ellanios82 wrote:
LILO seemed originally to be straight forward
"Yes, it used to be, but we changed all that."
The most significant change is that we are using larger disks so a lot of how the original LILO specified how to peel off the second stage boot no longer makes sense.
In fact the old cylinder - sector - head model got stretched out of all recognition. If you address certain sectors then -- oops, that's a bad patch on the disk and the disk electronics have a means of doing a look-aside to another place on the disk. And guess where the code that does all that lives? Right. And guess what happens if that gets corrupted, as happened to me earlier this year...
And once you start dealing with SATA ...
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