Lilo mini-Howto

Cameron Spitzer

            cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
         

Alessandro Rubini

            rubini@linux.it
         

Revision History
Revision v2.02 16 August 1998 Revised by: cs, ar
Revision v2.03 7 November 1999 Revised by: dlr, ar
changed linuxdoc to docbook, added preface

LILO is the most used Linux Loader for the x86 flavour 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*

Table of Contents
1. Copyright and Licensing Information
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. Background Information and Standard Installation
4.1. Where Should I Install Lilo?
4.2. How Should I Configure my IDE Hard Drives?
4.3. How Can I Interact at Boot Time?
4.4. How Can I Uninstall Lilo?
5. The Simple Configuration
5.1. How to Deal with Big Kernels
5.2. Other Sources of Information
6. Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios=
7. Using Lilo When the BIOS Can't See the Root Partition
8. Accessing Huge Disks When the BIOS Can't
9. Booting from a Rescue Floppy

1. Copyright and Licensing Information

Copyright © 1998 Cameron Spitzer and Alessandro Rubini. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v0.4 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).

Note that neither of the OPL "Options" apply to this document. This document may be freely reformatted, freely distributed, and freely modified and translated according to the terms presented in the Open Publication License.

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