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A boot loader, generally considered less used and less featureful than GRUB.
Although I had used LILO quite a lot in the past, and was doing some interesting things with it, like having multiboots with DOS and rearranging partitions to hide some or change what was primary, I tend to not use a bootloader like that anymore. I expect a distribution to be magical regarding a boot loader.
- LILO = Linux Loader
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When LILO breaks, I use boot-repair.
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See lilo.conf
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- 2016-03-28 - 24.0, on Slackware 14.1
- 2010-07-20 - 22.8, on Unity Linux 2010 rc2
- 2009-04-08 - 22.6.1, probably on Unity Linux (version not recorded)
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I had used LILO in the distant past. Distant, like the 90s.
2016-03-28 - 24.0 ∞
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Comes installed with Slackware 14.1
The Slackware installer worked just fine, but LILO broke my bootup of Lubuntu.
I used boot-repair to fix things.
2010-07-20 - 22.8 ∞
- previously, I could use
vga=324
vga=0x31B
= ?-
vga=0x376
= 1600x1200x32
2009-04-08 - 22.6.1 ∞
Advantages over GRUB
- Humans can install it
- Humans can maintain it
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Allows a higher resolution textmode
LILO textmode resolutions ∞
TODO: Elaborate on this..
The old LILO had this syntax:
vga=324 vga=791
The new LILO uses this syntax:
vga=0x31B vga=0x376
Does 0x31B = 1920x1600x32 ?
Manually installing LILO ∞
Here's the situation:
- Given a hard drive
- On which you want to have LILO working
- On which lives a Linux distribution
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But that Linux distribution does not have lilo
... how do you get LILO working?
- Get a Linux LiveCD which has LILO. I used RIPLinux 64-bit non-X.
- Boot from that LiveCD
- Prepare LILO
- Set up an environment on which your existing distribution can be
chroot
ed into - Send lilo.conf and lilo to that environment
chroot
in-
Run LILO
I have not experimented with bootable USB sticks. That would be a better thing to do.
d=sdb6 \echo \echo " # setup.." \echo \mkdir -p /mnt/$d \echo " dev" \mount /dev/$d /mnt/$d \echo " proc" \mount -t proc proc /mnt/$d/proc \mount -o bind /dev /mnt/$d/dev \cp --verbose ./lilo.conf /mnt/$d/etc \cp --verbose /sbin/lilo /mnt/$d \echo \echo " # chrooting in.." \echo \chroot /mnt/$d /bin/sh ## This stuff can't be scripted.. so type it. ## Although I suppose I could create /mnt/$d/script.sh and do a ## chroot /mnt/$d /script.sh # \lilo -v \echo \echo " # Recovering from all of this.." \echo \umount /mnt/$d/proc \umount /mnt/$d/dev \umount /mnt/$d
Old notes ∞
Reinstallation ∞
I'm not exploring this issue right now.
something like:
\mkdir /foo \mount /dev/sda1 /foo \mount --bind /proc /foo/proc \mount --bind /sys /foo/sys \mount --bind /dev /foo/dev \chroot /foo \vi /etc/lilo.conf \lilo \exit \reboot
Last updated 2022-08-25 at 20:07:15
Footnotes
- was lilo.alioth.debian.org [ ↩ ]