%general-entities; ]> Lilo configuring You are nearly ready to boot to the new temporary system. One of the last things to do is to ensure that the system can be booted. The instructions below apply only to x86_64 machines on which Lilo is going to be installed. Information on using a pre-installed GRUB on machines currently running as x86 or x86_64 multilib should be available in the usual resource-specific locations for those architectures. If you have installed an x86 version of Lilo, these instructions should be modified to refer to the lilo and keytab-lilo.pl commands you installed on the host system. Earlier, we compiled and installed the Lilo boot loader software in preparation for this step. The procedure involves writing a boot image to a specific location on the hard drive. If you have a floppy disk drive, or if you have installed a cd recording program, we highly recommend using mkrescue to create a Lilo boot floppy, or CD (using e.g. dvdrecord from dvdrtools) as a test and as a backup. keytab-lilo.pl uk >${CLFS}/boot/uk.ktl cat > ${CLFS}/etc/lilo.conf << "EOF" # Begin /etc/lilo.conf # lilo.conf # # global options boot=/dev/<bootdisk> keytable=/boot/<keytable> lba32 map=/boot/map prompt # set the name of the default image to boot default=clfs # define an image image=/boot/clfskernel label=clfs root=/dev/<partition> read-only # optionally add parameters to pass, e.g. # append="video=radeonfb:1024x768-16@70" # if you had an existing system, you could # add its details here. EOF The following command will overwrite any current boot loader. Do not run the command if this is not desired. If you have cross-compiled on a different machine from the target, you must install the bootloader on the target machine, the installed boot block is not a file which can be copied with tar. /tools/bin/lilo.static -v -C ${CLFS}/etc/lilo.conf