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<sect1 id="ch-system-lilo" role="wrap">
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  <title>Lilo-&lilo-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo">
    <primary sortas="a-Lilo">Lilo</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para os="a">The Lilo package contains the Linux Loader, a bootloader.</para>

    <para os="b">We have chosen to use Lilo because at the moment no other
      bootloader builds and runs on a pure64 system. If your machine has
      multiple systems (i.e. x86 or multilib) you may prefer to use the
      bootloader from the other system, such as GRUB.</para>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Lilo</title>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will
      print a message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to
      complete the update. Don't do this as it has no use. The
      /etc/lilo.conf isn't present yet. We will complete the
      installation of Lilo in chapter 12.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-lilo" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Lilo</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>diag1.img, lilo, mkrescue, keytab-lilo.pl</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="diag1.img">
        <term><command>diag1.img</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A diagnostic disk boot image.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo diag1.img">
            <primary sortas="b-diag1.img">diag1.img</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="lilo">
        <term><command>lilo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Lilo installs the Linux boot loader which is used to start
            a Linux system.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo lilo">
            <primary sortas="b-lilo">lilo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mkrescue">
        <term><command>mkrescue</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A script to make a bootable floppy or CD image using the
            default settings from the configuration file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo mkrescue">
            <primary sortas="b-mkrescue">mkrescue</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="keytab-lilo.pl">
        <term><command>keytab-lilo.pl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A perl script to create a keyboard translation table to
            allow the bootloader to process keystrokes to match your
            keyboard layout.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo keytab-lilo.pl">
            <primary sortas="b-keytab-lilo.pl">keytab-lilo.pl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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