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[48b28ab]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[48b28ab]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7<sect1 id="ch-system-lilo" role="wrap">
8 <?dbhtml filename="lilo.html"?>
9
10 <title>Lilo-&lilo-version;</title>
11
12 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo">
13 <primary sortas="a-Lilo">Lilo</primary>
14 </indexterm>
15
16 <sect2 role="package">
17 <title/>
18
19 <para os="a">The Lilo package contains the Linux Loader, a bootloader.</para>
20
[3df6c70]21 <para os="b">We have chosen to use Lilo because at the moment no other
[48b28ab]22 bootloader builds and runs on a pure64 system. If your machine has
23 multiple systems (i.e. x86 or multilib) you may prefer to use the
[3df6c70]24 bootloader from the other system, such as GRUB.</para>
[48b28ab]25
26 </sect2>
27
28 <sect2 role="installation">
29 <title>Installation of Lilo</title>
30
[407772b]31 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
32 href="../../final-system/x86/grub.xml"
33 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='n1'])"/>
34
[48b28ab]35 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
36
37<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
38
39 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
40
41<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will
44 print a message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to
[3df6c70]45 complete the update. Don't do this as it has no use. The
46 /etc/lilo.conf isn't present yet. We will complete the
47 installation of Lilo in chapter 12.</para>
[48b28ab]48
49 </sect2>
50
51 <sect2 id="contents-lilo" role="content">
52 <title>Contents of Lilo</title>
53
54 <segmentedlist>
55 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
56
57 <seglistitem>
58 <seg>diag1.img, lilo, mkrescue, keytab-lilo.pl</seg>
59 </seglistitem>
60 </segmentedlist>
61
62 <variablelist>
63 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
64 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
65 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
66
67 <varlistentry id="diag1.img">
68 <term><command>diag1.img</command></term>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>A diagnostic disk boot image.</para>
71 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo diag1.img">
72 <primary sortas="b-diag1.img">diag1.img</primary>
73 </indexterm>
74 </listitem>
75 </varlistentry>
76
77 <varlistentry id="lilo">
78 <term><command>lilo</command></term>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>Lilo installs the Linux boot loader which is used to start
81 a Linux system.</para>
82 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo lilo">
83 <primary sortas="b-lilo">lilo</primary>
84 </indexterm>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 <varlistentry id="mkrescue">
89 <term><command>mkrescue</command></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>A script to make a bootable floppy or CD image using the
[e3196bd]92 default settings from the configuration file.</para>
[48b28ab]93 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo mkrescue">
94 <primary sortas="b-mkrescue">mkrescue</primary>
95 </indexterm>
96 </listitem>
97 </varlistentry>
98
99 <varlistentry id="keytab-lilo.pl">
100 <term><command>keytab-lilo.pl</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>A perl script to create a keyboard translation table to
[e3196bd]103 allow the bootloader to process keystrokes to match your
104 keyboard layout.</para>
[48b28ab]105 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo keytab-lilo.pl">
106 <primary sortas="b-keytab-lilo.pl">keytab-lilo.pl</primary>
107 </indexterm>
108 </listitem>
109 </varlistentry>
110
111 </variablelist>
112
113 </sect2>
114
115</sect1>
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