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LILO mini-HOWTO

Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, skoric at eunet dot rs

v3.39, 2010-07-18

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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) .:: addons.mozilla.org ::.

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This version of Lilo mini-HOWTO is based on work of Cameron Spitzer ( .:: pediascape.science ::. [StackOverflow: Distributed computing] 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 - .:: podcasts.apple.com ::. .:: www.pho-thong.com ::. .:: telegra.ph ::. .:: za.pinterest.com ::. 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 [Google Scholar: TCP IP] 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

• 6.1 The theory
• 6.2 How to swap linux and NT booting ?
• 6.3 Miscellaneous

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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