LILO (LInux LOader) Configuration

1. Purpose

2. LILO principles

• 2.1 The First Inhabitant: the BIOS
• 2.2 From the MBR of the hard drive to the OS
• 2.3 The floppy's boot sector
• 2.4 And LILO
• 2.5 LILO, Linux, and the world

3. LILO configuration dialog

• 3.1 Global features
• 3.2 Defaults
• 3.3 Linux setups
• 3.4 Other operating systems

4. Moving LILO configuration files

• 4.1 Why move LILO anyway?
• 4.2 How to move? And where?

5. Alternatives to LILO

• 5.1 Using a floppy
• 5.2 Using loadlin