The first sector of your root partition Recommended if you are already using another boot loader on your system. In this case, your other boot loader will take control first. Caution If you choose not to install SILO for any reason, you will need to either use a boot diskette or you must use OpenBoot to boot to the device directly. If you wish to add default options to the SILO boot command, enter them into the kernel parameters field. Any options you enter will be passed to the Linux kernel every time it boots.
Every bootable partition is listed, including partitions used by other operating systems.
The Boot label column will be filled in with the word linux on the partition holding your Red Hat Linux system's root filesystem. Other partitions may also have boot labels. Once selected, you can change the boot label. This section is specific to SMP motherboards only. If the installation program detects an SMP motherboard on your system, it will automatically create two silo.conf entries, rather than the usual single entry.