m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> It's very simple actually. The first step in the booting process of >>> CENTOS-7 is the application of emf to the system, following which it >>> would initiate the cmos process to load the GPT from disk and hand >>> over to LILO which will bootstrap the kernel from the file allocation >>> table into the high memory area before running systemd to complete the >>> booting process. >> I didn't think LILO had been used for years ...? > Geez! I bet he didn't think that he'd have to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> > around that.... I've lost track of who posted that, but *I* thought it was > funny.... Why send a smartass reply to a simple query? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland