01-12-2013
I did switch to a generic kernel, and the OS is booted fine (I had to add an initrd, besides). But lilo's menu screen shows garbage. Everything in the screen looks well save for a letter U printed within the red box. At this time, lilo is waiting keyboard input, I mean lilo has the control (of course lilo calls some BIOS routines). So, what has the kernel to do with all this? How can the fact of having changed the kernel produce this effect? Something is wrong in the code in the MBR and the other sectors that contain lilo's bootloader. Is there a way to check this code? Or check the BIOS?
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I think the letter U has been printed by lilo as an indicator, but I do not know what it means. The red box menu has two entries, 'slack14' and 'xp'. The 'U' is beside 'slack14'. Does anybody know it's meaning?
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
liloconfig
LILOCONFIG(8) liloconfig documentation LILOCONFIG(8)
NAME
liloconfig - create new lilo.conf file (with diskid and uuid)
SYNOPSIS
liloconfig [-h] [-v] [-f] [lilo.conf]
DESCRIPTION
liloconfig is an simple program for creating a new lilo.conf file. After creating the new configuration file you must execute
'/sbin/lilo'.
liloconfig use the lilo.example.conf file as template. In the final lilo.conf file you find many useful comments for custom changes.
OPTIONS
-h Print a brief help.
-v Print verbose messages.
-f Force overriding existing lilo.conf.
EXAMPLES
Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:
### LILO global section ###
#large-memory
lba32
boot = /dev/sda
map = /boot/map
install = menu
menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
prompt
timeout = 100
vga = normal
#default = Linux
### LILO per-image section ###
#boot = /dev/sda
boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5book-686
label = "Linux"
#root = /dev/sda1
root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
read-only
# restricted
# alias = 1
# optional
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5book-686
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
label = "Linux Old"
#root = /dev/sda1
root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
read-only
# restricted
# alias = 2
# optional
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2011 Joachim Wiedorn
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
AUTHOR
lilconfig was written by Joachim Wiedorn.
This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
lilo(8), update-lilo(8), lilo-uuid-diskid(8)
23.1 2011-03-20 LILOCONFIG(8)