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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers LiLo in Red Hat 8 Post 31980 by LivinFree on Friday 15th of November 2002 04:37:26 PM
Old 11-15-2002
Due to your hardware (well, actually your BIOS) LILO has to be near the "front" of your disk.
To be more accurate, the /boot partition has to be within the first X gigs of disk...

To try installing Grub, you may have to uninstall LILO first - use the command "/sbin/lilo -u", then try installing Grub...

Keep a boot disk handy!
 

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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)
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