Section 8: liloconfig
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LILOCONFIG(8) LILOCONFIG(8)
NAME
liloconfig - interactive configure script for lilo
SYNOPSIS
liloconfig
DESCRIPTION
liloconfig is an interactive program which will ask you a
series of questions and write a lilo.conf(5) configuration
file for you. It will also set up the Master Boot Record
(MBR) so that Linux will boot from hard disk. It is nor-
mally run automatically whenever you upgrade the lilo(8)
Debian package.
The configuration file generated by liloconfig is intended
for common installations; if your setup is complicated or
unusual you should consider writing your own customised
lilo.conf. To do this you should refer to the comprehen-
sive lilo documentation, which can be found in
/usr/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.
If you have already written your own lilo.conf then the
script will ask you if you wish to keep it, in which case
it will check it for options which are incompatible with
the current version of lilo and run lilo to install the
boot block.
If you have no lilo.conf or choose to overwrite it, lilo-
config will perform three operations to ensure that the
Linux system will boot from the hard disk: install LILO in
the Linux partition's boot record, install a simple MBR,
and mark the Linux partition as the active partition. You
will be prompted prior to each of these operations, so you
can skip them and perform them manually later on.
The automatically generated lilo.conf contains helpful
comments, so it might well be a good place to start even
if you wish to roll your own configuration file.
AUTHOR
Bruce Perens ,
Bernd Eckenfels
and Vincent Renardias .
Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this
manual page.
SEE ALSO
lilo(8), lilo.conf(5)
lilo comes with extensive documentation; this can be found
in /usr/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.
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