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 normally 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 comprehensive lilo documentation, which can be found in
/usr/share/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, liloconfig 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 <bruce@Pixar.com>,
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>
and Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>.
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/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.
September 1999