LILO mini-HOWTO
Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, skoric at eunet dot rs
v3.39, 2010-07-18
LILO is the most used Linux Loader for the x86 flavor of Linux; I'll call it Lilo rather than LILO here because I don't appreciate uppercase. This file describes some typical Lilo installations. It's intended as a supplement to the Lilo User's Guide. I think examples are informative even if your setup isn't much like mine. I hope this saves you trouble. Since Lilo's own documentation is very good, who's interested in the details is referred to /usr/doc/lilo* (once upon a time said gentlemen like Cameron Spitzer and Alessandro Rubini who have made early versions of this document)
This version of Lilo mini-HOWTO is based on work of Cameron Spitzer
(cls@truffula.sj.ca.us) and Alessandro Rubini
(rubini@linux.it). There are also contributions from Tony Harris
(tony@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) and Marc Tanguy
(mtanguy@ens.uvsq.fr). Well, I have used materials from
the authors mentioned - without changes - and added some pointers
related to configuring LILO for using with Windows NT and Windows 2000.
More detailed information about the activation of Windows NT/2000 from LILO
menu, you may find in wonderfull
Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
1. Introduction
2. Background Information and Standard Installation
- 2.1 Where Should I Install Lilo?
- 2.2 How Should I Configure my IDE Hard Drives?
- 2.3 How Can I Interact at Boot Time?
- 2.4 How Can I Uninstall Lilo?
- 2.5 How to make a ram disk?
3. The Simple Configuration
- 3.1 How to Deal with Big Kernels
- 3.2 How to boot Windows NT from 'LILO boot:' menu
- 3.3 How to boot Windows 2000 from 'LILO boot:' menu
4. Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios=
5. Using Lilo When the BIOS Can't See the Root Partition
6. How do i know the BIOS number for my SCSI disks
7. Accessing Huge Disks When the BIOS Can't
8. Booting from a Rescue Floppy
9. LILO after the installation of Mandrake Linux 9.1 on HP products
- 9.1 Description of the products used in this experiment
- 9.2 What does LILO looks like on these HP products
- 9.3 Conclusions
10. Bibliography
11. Further Information
- 11.1 Copyright
- 11.2 Disclaimer
- 11.3 News
- 11.4 Credits
- 11.5 HOWTO
- 11.6 Mini-HOWTO
- 11.7 Local Resources
- 11.8 Web Pages
12. Getting help
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