Unix and Linux Stack Exchange
Unix and Linux Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [lilo]

LILO (LInux LOader) is a boot loader for Linux.

28 questions
33
votes
5 answers

Is GRUB the best bootloading solution? Is there an easier alternative?

I have had some rather bad experiences with GRUB2. I could say (and have said) some nasty things about its design and development process. I especially dislike its means of update: for whatever reason it must semi-automatically update several…
user77422
23
votes
5 answers

What is the difference between LILO and GRUB?

I am running a web server under Debian and I currently have GRUB installed. Should I consider using LILO instead of GRUB? And what are the advantages of each?
Jonathan Rioux
  • 331
  • 1
  • 2
  • 6
12
votes
2 answers

GRUB and LILO both fail to install to NVMe hard disk when installing Debian

I'm trying to install 64-bit Debian stable on a Lenovo Thinkpad. When I get to the installation step that installs the bootloader, I get this message: An installation step failed. You can try running the failing item again from the menu, or skip it…
Michael A
  • 1,501
  • 5
  • 19
  • 33
5
votes
1 answer

Lilo makes a lot of disk noise

After upgrading to Debian Wheezy, the lilo command causes my boot disk to make a lot of noise. I am not aways of any real problems, just the noise sounds somewhat scary, especially since this wasn't the case earlier. When I run lilo -v4 I can see…
Martin Drautzburg
  • 2,498
  • 3
  • 16
  • 18
5
votes
2 answers

Should I use LILO or GRUB or other?

I am making a netinstall DVD which will have netinstall for 10 different Linux distros on it. I will need to install a bootloader on the disk so I can choose which distro I want to install. Which is the easiest to set up and put on a disc - LILO or…
gadgetmo
  • 831
  • 4
  • 14
  • 21
4
votes
1 answer

How to use persistent names in LILO?

I have two SATA drives, but their names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are chosen randomly by Linux. How can I correctly set up LILO? How can I put a stable reference to the hard drives in lilo.conf? ADDED. Can I use udev's names (like /dev/disk/by-id/*) in…
user14284
4
votes
1 answer

Is it possible to pass kernel parameters in the LILO boot prompt?

Is it possible to pass kernel parameters in the LILO boot prompt?
user14284
3
votes
1 answer

Gentoo Kernel failing to boot

My machine has two hard drives -- /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The first has Ubuntu installed. On the second, sdb, I want to install Gentoo. I did all the installation steps, chrooted and compiled the kernel, and installed lilo. In lilo's configuration I…
KAction
  • 151
  • 4
2
votes
1 answer

How do I get LILO to boot on cloned hard drive?

I have a really old hard drive with DOS and Linux partitions with LILO as the boot loader. I want a clone of this hard drive that works exactly like the original. I made a clone using Knoppix and dd_rescue. When I plug in the newly cloned drive,…
user142485
  • 121
  • 3
2
votes
0 answers

grub or lilo? I'd like to keep lilo but

So, to make a long story short, I was running Debian 9, decided to upgrade to '11'. Left 9 installed on sdc, used the installer to sdb which I had already partitioned as I prefer. But the installer refused to use my existing partitions so I just…
Ray Andrews
  • 2,125
  • 4
  • 20
  • 37
2
votes
1 answer

Detect if it's lilo boot loader or grub?

Without rebooting, is it possible to tell if the boot loader currently present was LILO. GRUB 0.97 or GRUB 1.9X? I was thinking about reading MBR, but not sure about it. Just by checking the files on system, i.e /etc/lilo.conf doesn't testify…
daisy
  • 53,527
  • 78
  • 236
  • 383
2
votes
1 answer

Slackware 14.2 fresh install doesn't run LILO nor ELILO at boot

This is my third Slackware 14.2 64-bit installation.  I'm installing it now on a laptop with GPT partitions. I will describe as best as possible the path I had to do with this installation. Initially I had to overcome the issue that using dd to…
Cedric Zoppolo
  • 121
  • 1
  • 5
2
votes
4 answers

Unable to boot the operating system

I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10. After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black screen. I used sysresccd and tried to repair grub…
xralf
  • 16,149
  • 29
  • 101
  • 149
2
votes
0 answers

Booting Android with lilo in a PC

After installation of android, I modified lilo.conf to boot it. I just wrote image=/mnt/android-4.4-r2/kernel root=/dev/sda7 label=android read-only because I saw the only filename that looked like a kernel image was that. But after some…
stf92
  • 21
  • 2
1
vote
2 answers

Debian 6 and the old Pentium II

I have an old Pentium II with 300 Mhz computer just to run/test old DOS applications. It have two hard drives, a 2 GB for DOS and a 40 GB for Linux. First I installed Debian 6 with GRUB, but it failed to boot due to the old BIOS can't see hard…
Zui
  • 13
  • 3
1
2