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LILO alone

LILO can also take over the entire boot procedure. If installed as the MBR, LILO is responsible for either booting Linux or any other OS. This approach has the disadvantage, that the old MBR is overwritten and has to be restored (either from a backup copy, with FDISK /MBR" on recent versions of MS-DOS or by overwriting it with something like BOOTACTV) if Linux should ever be removed from the system.

You should verify that LILO is able to boot your other operating system(s) before relying on this method.

Installation:

Deinstallation:

If you've installed LILO as the master boot record, you have to explicitly specify the boot sector (configuration variable boot=) when updating the map. Otherwise, it will try to use the boot sector of your current root partition, which may even work, but will probably leave your system unbootable.



Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995