Installing Lilo-22.2

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

Installation of Lilo

We have chosen Lilo because we feel comfortable with it, but you may wish to take a look elsewhere. Someone has written a hint on GRUB at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/grub-howto.txt, an alternative boot loader.

Install Lilo by running the following commands:

make &&
make install

It appears that compilation of this package fails on certain machines when the -g compiler flag is being used. If you can't compile Lilo at all, you should try to remove the -g value from the CFLAGS variable in the Makefile file.

At the end of the installation the make install process will print a message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to complete the update. Don't do this as it has no use. The /etc/lilo.conf isn't present yet. We will complete the installation of lilo in chapter 8.

Maybe you'll be interested to know that someone wrote a hint on how to get a logo instead the the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take a look at it at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/bootlogo.txt .

Contents of lilo-22.1

Program Files

lilo and mkrescue

Descriptions

lilo

lilo installs the Linux boot loader which is used to start a Linux system.

mkrescue

mkrescue makes a bootable rescue floppy using the existing kernel and any initial ramdisk.

Dependencies

Lilo-22.1 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
bin86: as86, ld86
binutils: as, ld, strip
fileutils: cp, dd, ln
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0
make: make
sed: sed
textutils: cat