liloconfig (8)

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

NAME

liloconfig - create new lilo.conf file (with diskid and uuid)

SYNOPSIS

liloconfig [-h] [-v] [-f] [lilo.conf]

DESCRIPTION

liloconfig is an simple program for creating a new lilo.conf file. After creating the new configuration file you must execute '/sbin/lilo'.

liloconfig use the lilo.example.conf file as template. In the final lilo.conf file you find many useful comments for custom changes.

OPTIONS

-h: Print a brief help.
-v: Print verbose messages.
-f: Force overriding existing lilo.conf.

EXAMPLES

Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:

  ### LILO global section ###

  #large-memory
  lba32
  boot = /dev/sda
  map = /boot/map
  install = menu
  menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
  prompt
  timeout = 100
  vga = normal
  #default = Linux

  ### LILO per-image section ###

  #boot = /dev/sda
  boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999

  image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-trunk-686
      label = "Linux"
      #root = /dev/sda1
      root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
      read-only
  #   restricted
  #   alias = 1
  #   optional
      initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-trunk-686

  image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686
      label = "Linux Old"
      #root = /dev/sda1
      root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
      read-only
  #   restricted
  #   alias = 2
  #   optional
      initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

lilconfig was written by Joachim Wiedorn.

This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de>.