no second ( , saikee... look at root (hd(i,j)

as a side note, lilo stands for linux loader. seems reasonable to rely on linux...

however, /dev/hd??? syntax is rather *nix, not linux only... I wouldn't call it reliance on linux. The thing is, lilo is designed to be as small as possible to fit on the mbr. naturally, these things get relegated to the executable, and since it is going to be static, reusing things done by the kernel is the way to go. grub was designed from scratch to be multiboot compliant ( and they defined multiboot too) and they meant to do the thing at runtime, so the difference.

and I agree that out mods are way too cool!