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LILO mini-HOWTO

LILO is the most used Linux Loader for the x86 flavor of Linux; I'll call it Lilo rather than LILO here because I don't appreciate uppercase. This file describes some typical Lilo installations. It's intended as a supplement to the Lilo User's Guide. I think examples are informative even if your setup isn't much like mine. I hope this saves you trouble. Since Lilo's own documentation is very good, who's interested in the details is referred to /usr/doc/lilo* (once upon a time said gentlemen like Cameron Spitzer and Alessandro Rubini who have made early versions of this document)

1. Introduction

2. Background Information and Standard Installation

3. The Simple Configuration

4. Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios=

5. Using Lilo When the BIOS Can't See the Root Partition

6. How do i know the BIOS number for my SCSI disks

7. Accessing Huge Disks When the BIOS Can't

8. Booting from a Rescue Floppy

9. LILO after the installation of Mandrake Linux 9.1 on HP products

10. Bibliography

11. Further Information

12. Getting help

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