%general-entities; ]> Lilo-&lilo-version; Lilo <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 Compile the package: make Install the package: make install 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. Contents of Lilo Installed programs diag1.img, lilo, mkrescue, keytab-lilo.pl Short Descriptions diag1.img A diagnostic disk boot image. diag1.img lilo Lilo installs the Linux boot loader which is used to start a Linux system. lilo mkrescue A script to make a bootable floppy or CD image using the default settings from the configuration file. mkrescue keytab-lilo.pl A perl script to create a keyboard translation table to allow the bootloader to process keystrokes to match your keyboard layout. keytab-lilo.pl