When a person is in shock (from any cause), not enough blood and oxygen are reaching the body's organs. If shock lasts more than a few minutes, the lack of oxygen starts to damage the bodyâs organs. If shock isn't treated quickly, it can cause permanent organ damage or death.
The LILO versus GRUB argument is one of those never-ending and passionate discussions that resurface from time to time on various public forums, not too different from the notorious vi vs. emacs or KDE vs. GNOME verbal battles.
The BIOS chip tells it to look in a fixed place, usually on the lowest-numbered hard disk (the boot disk) for a special program called a boot loader (under Linux the boot loader is called Grub or LILO). The boot loader is pulled into memory and started. The boot loader's job is to start the real operating system.