I just rembered that lilo verifies that the root-device that I use in
lilo-conf actually exists ?

So when I boot from my minimal-cd the disk is /dev/hda so if I write
/dev/sda in lilo.conf I will get an error when running lilo ?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:58:49 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote:
>
> > Is it lilo that tells the kernel at boot what device to mount as root ?
>
> Yes, although you'll find that most people prefer GRUB to Lilo nowadays.
>
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