[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[David Campbell]

> > But, would swapping them around actually corrupt a linux partition?  I
> > mean, if you swapped it to the wrong one, and then swapped it back, can
> > this corrupt the entire filesystem?
> > 
> 
> I wouldn't think so as Linux doesn't really need the BIOS.

What Linux and BIOS think the HDD is configured is two different 
things. The problem is that:
	a) Old BIOSes do not understand LBA (Linux does)
	b) LILO requires BIOS calls to load the info

Once the kernel is in memory, linux can do whatever it pleases. Until 
you get the kernel into memory, there is nothing the kernel can do.

David Campbell
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