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16 .TH LILOCONFIG 8 "September 1999"
18 liloconfig \- interactive configure script for lilo
24 is an interactive program which will ask you a series of questions
27 configuration file for you. It will also set up the Master Boot Record
28 (MBR) so that Linux will boot from hard disk.
29 It is normally run automatically whenever you upgrade the
33 The configuration file generated by
35 is intended for common installations; if your setup is complicated
36 or unusual you should consider writing your own customised
38 To do this you should refer to the comprehensive
40 documentation, which can be found in
41 /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.
43 If you have already written your own
45 then the script will ask you if you wish to keep it, in which case
46 it will check it for options which are incompatible with the current
51 to install the boot block.
55 or choose to overwrite it,
57 will perform three operations to ensure that the Linux system will
58 boot from the hard disk:
59 install LILO in the Linux partition's boot record, install a
60 simple MBR, and mark the Linux partition as the active partition.
61 You will be prompted prior to each of these operations, so you
62 can skip them and perform them manually later on.
64 The automatically generated
66 contains helpful comments, so it might well be a good place to start
67 even if you wish to roll your own configuration file.
70 Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>,
72 Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>
74 and Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>.
76 Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.
82 comes with extensive documentation; this can be found in
83 /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.