Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 20/04/13 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote:Tony van der Hoff wrote:On 20/04/13 15:12, Richard Owlett wrote:I need complete documentation on LILO with emphasis on lilo.conf . Assume I'm stranded on a desert isle (SW Missouri is a fair approximation) with a computer and a set of install disks. What *ONE* document will answer ALL my LILO questions. Hint: man pages and mini-HOTO's don't hack it. They presume and summarize too much. {I'm installing using the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5}I don't know about "one" document, but there's the user documentation and the technical (i.e. internal) docs at http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/One of places I had been :{Care to explain why you don't like it/what you really want?
In my "three score and ten" I've learned to recognize when I am too clueless to ask a reasonable question ;/
The immediate surface symptoms include almost no change to /etc/lilo.conf having the expected effect.
I can't get the menu to display automatically - even if at the moment it would have only one choice. [It does display if I hit the space-bar when LILO appears on screen.]
I can't the text describing the one menu item I have.I suspect the document I desire would spend a dozen pages describing only lilo.conf.