Restores the boot sector that was used before the installation of LILO . Note that this option only works properly if LILO 's directories (e.g. /boot) have not been touched since the first installation. See also section 4.4.
by --
=/sbin/lilo
-u -U
by
boot" variable is used. If this one
is also unavailable, LILO uses the current root device. The name of
the backup copy is derived from the device name. The
-s" option
or the
backup" variable can be used to override this.
LILO validates the backup copy by checking a time stamp.
-u", but does not check the time stamp.