Re: LILO question

[Kurt Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>]

"LeRoy D. Cressy" wrote:
> 
> Kurt Starsinic wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >     I'm trying to figure out (remotely) what's been written to the boot
> > block of a computer by LILO.  I think that /etc/lilo.conf is out of sync
> > with what's actually written to the boot block, and I want to find out
> > what's actually written.
> >
> >     `lilo -q -v -v' tells me most of what I want to know, but it doesn't
> > give the pathnames of the kernels.  Is this information available
> > somewhere?
> >
> >     Peace,
> > * Kurt Starsinic (kstar@isinet.com) ------------------ Technical
> > Specialist *
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> Hi Kurt,
> 
> Your problem has intrigued me.  So I started doing some reading and
> found that in the /usr/doc/lilo/ is a tex file for technical overview.
> In here it discribes /boot/map file.  This is the file that is read with
> the command lilo -q -v -v.  This file also contains the exact locations
> on the hard drive for the various files to execute.  But trying to
> figure out real machine code will take too much time.
> 
> Hope to see you on Wednesday

LeRoy,

    Thanks.  Somebody else on the list (sorry, I've forgotten who)
pointed out,
correctly, that lilo doesn't record filenames, it records disk block
pointers.

    So `lilo -q -v -v' tells everything there is to be told; it's just
not
exactly what I wanted to hear.  :^)

    See you Wednesday,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar@isinet.com) ------------------ Technical
Specialist *
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