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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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
21 <para os="b">We have chosen to use Lilo because at the moment no other
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
24 bootloader from the other system, such as GRUB.</para>
25
26 </sect2>
27
28
29 <sect2 role="installation">
30 <title>Installation of Lilo</title>
31
32 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
37
38<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will
41 print a message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to
42 complete the update. Don't do this as it has no use. The
43 /etc/lilo.conf isn't present yet. We will complete the
44 installation of Lilo in chapter 12.</para>
45
46 </sect2>
47
48 <sect2 id="contents-lilo" role="content">
49 <title>Contents of Lilo</title>
50
51 <segmentedlist>
52 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
53
54 <seglistitem>
55 <seg>diag1.img, lilo, mkrescue, keytab-lilo.pl</seg>
56 </seglistitem>
57 </segmentedlist>
58
59 <variablelist>
60 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
61 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
62 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
63
64 <varlistentry id="diag1.img">
65 <term><command>diag1.img</command></term>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>A diagnostic disk boot image.</para>
68 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo diag1.img">
69 <primary sortas="b-diag1.img">diag1.img</primary>
70 </indexterm>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
74 <varlistentry id="lilo">
75 <term><command>lilo</command></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Lilo installs the Linux boot loader which is used to start
78 a Linux system.</para>
79 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo lilo">
80 <primary sortas="b-lilo">lilo</primary>
81 </indexterm>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
85 <varlistentry id="mkrescue">
86 <term><command>mkrescue</command></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>A script to make a bootable floppy or CD image using the
89 default settings from the configuration file.</para>
90 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo mkrescue">
91 <primary sortas="b-mkrescue">mkrescue</primary>
92 </indexterm>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry id="keytab-lilo.pl">
97 <term><command>keytab-lilo.pl</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>A perl script to create a keyboard translation table to
100 allow the bootloader to process keystrokes to match your
101 keyboard layout.</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-lilo keytab-lilo.pl">
103 <primary sortas="b-keytab-lilo.pl">keytab-lilo.pl</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 </variablelist>
109
110 </sect2>
111
112</sect1>
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