4 title: liloconfig documentation
12 liloconfig - create new lilo.conf file (with diskid and uuid)
16 B<liloconfig> [B<-h>] [B<-v>] [B<-f>] [B<-u>] [B<lilo.conf>]
20 liloconfig is an simple program for creating a new lilo.conf file.
21 After creating the new configuration file you must execute '/sbin/lilo'.
23 liloconfig use the lilo.example.conf file as template. In the final
24 lilo.conf file you find many useful comments for custom changes.
26 Please pay attention about error messages if liloconfig cannot find
27 any images (/boot/vmlinuz*) oder image symlinks (/vmlinuz, /vmlinu.old).
28 Then you need to search for images by ourself and make some changes
29 in the '/etc/lilo.conf' file. Otherwise no bootloader can be installed
42 Print verbose messages.
46 Force overriding existing lilo.conf.
50 Force overriding/update of boot line in lilo.conf.
56 Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:
58 ### LILO global section ###
63 boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999
65 root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
68 menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
75 ### LILO per-image section ###
77 image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.17-trunk-686
80 #root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
85 initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.17-trunk-686
87 image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.14-trunk-686
90 #root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
95 initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.14-trunk-686
97 =head1 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
99 Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Joachim Wiedorn
101 This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
102 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
103 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
104 (at your option) any later version.
108 B<liloconfig> was written by Joachim Wiedorn.
110 This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <joodevel at joonet.de>.
114 B<lilo>(8), B<update-lilo>(8), B<lilo-uuid-diskid>(8)