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LILO User's guide
Werner Almesberger
werner.almesberger@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Version 0.16 February 26, 1995
Contents
Introduction
Disk organization
Booting basics
MS-DOS alone
BOOTLIN
LILO started by DOS-MBR
Several alternate branches
LILO started by BOOTACTV
LILO alone
Names
Choosing the ``right'' boot concept
BIOS restrictions
One disk, Linux on a primary partition
One disk, Linux on a logical partition
Two disks, Linux (at least partially) on the first disk
Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has an extended partition
Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has no extended partition
More than two disks
/boot on a DOS partition
The boot prompt
Boot command-line options
Standard options
Device-specific options
Other options
Repeating options
Implicit options
Boot image selection
Map installer
Command-line options
Show current installation
Create or update map
Change default command line
Kernel name translation
De-installation
Print version number
Options corresponding to configuration variables
Configuration
Syntax
Global options
General per-image options
Per-image options for kernels
Boot image types
Booting kernel images from a file
Booting kernel images from a device
Booting a foreign operating system
Disk geometry
Obtaining the geometry
Specifying the geometry
Disk parameter table
Installation and updates
Installation
Compatibility
Quick installation
Files
Normal first-time installation
Build-time configuration
Updates
LILO update
Kernel update
System upgrade
LILO de-installation
Installation of other operating systems
Troubleshooting
Map installer warnings and errors
Fatal errors
Warnings
LILO start message
Disk error codes
Other problems
About this document ...
Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995