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lilo ? install boot loader |
Main function: /sbin/lilo ? install boot loader Auxiliary uses: /sbin/lilo -q ? query map |
lilo installs a boot loader that will be activated next time you boot. It has lots of options. |
?v |
Increase verbosity. Giving one or more -v options will make lilo more verbose. |
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?q |
List the currently mapped files. lilo maintains a file, by default /boot/map, containing the name and location of the kernel(s) to boot. This option will list the names therein. |
?m map-file |
Use specified map file instead of the default. |
?C config-file |
lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from its config file, by default /etc/lilo.conf. This option can be used to specify a non-default config file. |
?d delay |
If you have specified several kernels, and press Shift at boot-time, the boot loader will present you with a choice of which system to boot. After a timeout period the first kernel in the list is booted. This option specifies the timeout delay in deciseconds. |
?D label |
Use the kernel with the given label, instead of the first one in the list, as the default kernel to boot. |
?r root-directory |
Before doing anything else, do a chroot to the indicated directory. Used for repairing a setup from a boot floppy. |
?t |
Test only. Do not really write a new boot sector or map file. Use together with -v to find out what lilo is about to do. |
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?c |
Enable map compaction. This will merge read requests from adjacent sectors. Speeds up the booting (especially from floppy). |
?f disk-tab |
Specify disk geometry parameter file. (The default is /etc/disktab.) |
?i boot-sector |
Specify a file to be used as the new boot sector. (The default is /boot/boot.b.) |
?l |
Generate linear sector addresses instead of sector/head/cylinder addresses. |
?P {fix|ignore} |
Fix (or ignore) ‘corrupt’ partition tables, i.e., partition tables with linear and sector/head/cylinder addresses that do not correspond. |
?s save-file |
When lilo overwrites the boot sector, it preserves the old contents in a file, by default /boot/boot.NNNN where NNNN depends on the device. This option specifies an alternate save file for the boot sector. (Or, together with the -u option, specifies from where to restore the boot sector.) |
?S save-file |
Normally, lilo will not overwrite an existing save file. This options says that overwriting is allowed. |
?u device-name |
Uninstall lilo, by copying the saved boot sector back. A time-stamp is checked. |
?U device-name |
Idem, but do not check the time-stamp. |
?R command line |
This option sets the default command for the boot loader the next time it executes. The boot loader will then erase this line: this is a once-only command. It is typically used in reboot scripts, just before calling ‘shutdown -r’. |
?I label |
The label of the running kernel can be found in the environment variable BOOT_IMAGE after startup. This command will print the corresponding path name on stdout. |
?V |
Print version number. |
The above command line options correspond to the key words in the config file indicated below. |