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Notes:
The earliest version of LILO loaded a
Linux kernel into the low 640mb of
memory, leaving the top free for LILO
and for temporary stack space, and
the bottom for mapped areas. The
maximum size of a kernel was about
512 kb, and it had to live on a disk
in the space which could be addressed
by Cylinder, Head, and Sector. LILO
knows nothing about file systems, and
saves a list of disk blocks to be loaded
into memory.