Brief Notes for Installing LILO into the superblock of the boot partition

NOTE: This assumes the partition table and filesystem are intact

As the root user:

  1. Make a backup copy of /etc/lilo.conf eg. cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.20011027

  2. Edit /etc/lilo.conf:

    Change the line that reads "boot=/dev/hda" to "boot=/dev/hda?" where /dev/hda? is the partition where your linux kernel lives. eg. on my system the kernel lives in /boot which is in hda1, so the new lilo.conf entry would be boot=/dev/hda1

  3. Run /sbin/lilo:

    /sbin/lilo

  4. Install a boot manager in the MBR which points to /dev/hda1 as the boot partition

That should be it!

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