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- $Id: SiloDefault,v 1.1 1998/03/05 22:45:34 srivasta Exp $
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- If the post install script finds SILO on the system (/sbin/silo),
- it checks to see if there already exists a configuration file
- /etc/silo.conf. If not, a boilerplate SILO configuration file that
- will work with the image just installed, as follows.
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- It looks into /etc/fstab, looking for the device that the root (/)
- directory is on, also, it looks for any partition that may have a boot
- sector installed by SILO, ignoring swap, NFS and proc file systems and
- floppy drives (if no SILO sector is found, it assumes that the drive
- that the root device is on should be where SILO places the block (this
- is not good for all installations, but it gives a starting point) and
- inserts lines like (assuming the root directory is on /dev/sda4):
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- partition=4 root=/dev/sda4
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- and then appends the following:
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- timeout=100
- image=/vmlinuz
- label=Linux
- read-only
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