[PLUG] LILO tutorial
Richard Owlett
rowlett at cloud85.net
Fri Apr 19 10:39:14 UTC 2013
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> I've read docs by and for geeks Anything for us of vacuum tube era?
>
> Germane to what? In other words, what do you want to know that the man
> page does not provide?
>
Man pages might be described as the "CliffsNotes" version of
what I'm looking for.
"Three ladies make stew prior to guilt plagued murderer
vainly attempts to wash hands" may summarize "Macbeth".
But ;)
My immediate symptom, having installed two configurations of
Debian I wish to chose between them with a menu.
As a first step I attempted to modify the automatically
created lilo.conf to display the menu (admittedly it will
only have one entry to chose from at this point). I
uncommented the line containing "install=menu" and then ran
"lilo". It did not display a menu on the next boot. The menu
code code itself is functional as I can display the menu if
fast enough with the space-bar when LILO starts.
Another question lurking is what should be considered when
choosing to place LILO in MBR or the partition in which the
OS is being installed.
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