LILO is documented in the lilo(8) and lilo.conf(5) manual pages; the LILO Generic boot loader for Linux … User's Guide found in the file /usr/share/doc/lilo…/doc/User_Guide.ps; and the LILO mini-HOWTO.
The LILO configuration is kept in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The first part of the file applies to all images. The following parts are image descriptions for each kernel.
Set LILO to use the serial port. The syntax of the serial line parameters follows that used by the kernel, except that one stop bit is assumed.
Where the variables are the same as used by the kernel (shown in Figure 2-7) and:
Our examples use /dev/ttyS0, which LILO knows as port 0.
Figure 4-3. LILO boot loader sample configuration
serial=0,9600n8 timeout=100 restricted password=PASSWORD |
Example 4-1. Using kernel parameters to avoid access permissions
LILO: linux init=/sbin/sash |