Most recent versions of Linux, including the one supplied on this book’s CD-ROM, let you manage LILO through a menu-driven routine usually started through setup. Typically, when you have made any changes to the installation (such as adding new software), the last component of the setup program asks you whether you want to work with […]
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Regardless of which boot process you use, LILO pauses momentarily when Linux is booting to check that the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys are not pressed and that Caps Lock and Scroll Lock are set. If none of the keys are pressed and the locks are on, LILO displays the boot prompt. At this point, […]
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The map installer is the program that updates the boot sector and creates the map file. The map installer is usually the file /etc/lilo/lilo. Whenever the map installer is running, it checks for errors in the boot sector. If an error is detected, no changes to the boot sector are written, and the installer terminates.
When […]
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The LILO map installer utility accepts a number of options on the command line. Many of the command-line options are mirrored by configuration variables, discussed in the next section. The following list describes the command-line options:
* The -b dev option uses dev as the boot device. If no value is specified, […]
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You can store configuration options for the map installer in the file /etc/lilo/config or /etc/lilo.conf (depending on the version of Linux). The file consists of sets of parameter-value pairs, although some options do not need a value. You can use whitespace between the parameter and the equal sign and between the equal sign and the […]
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LILO can boot a kernel image from several locations, such as a regular file on the root filesystem or any other mounted filesystem, a block device such as a floppy disk, or the boot sector of another partition or disk. The type of boot is dictated by entries in a configuration file. Boot image configuration […]
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OpenStreetMap: Free GPS Devices for OpenStreetMap Events.
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LinuxDevices: World’s Cheapest Linux-Based Laptop?.
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Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6.
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The cpufrequtils library offers an access method for userspace tools to the CPU frequency and voltage scaling subsystem.
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