Booting Linux by the boot manager of Boot-US
Linux can be installed on a primary or logical partition on any hard disk.
In order that such a partition can be booted by the boot manager of Boot-US
the Linux loader LILO must be installed onto the boot sector of the Linux partition.
Below you will find a concrete example for the configuration file
/etc/lilo.conf which has been kindly provided
by a user (Sebastian Steinmetz) who boots Linux by the boot manager of Boot-US.
In this case Linux is installed on a logical partition
on the second EIDE disk
(boot=/dev/hdb5).
When Linux resides on another location the installation target
of LILO must be modified appropriately. Starting with LILO 21.6 the Linux
boot partition may reside beyond 8 GB limit (parameter lba32).
Example for /etc/lilo.conf:
# LILO configuration file
# Start LILO global Section
boot=/dev/hdb5 # installation target of LILO
compact # faster (not guaranteed to work)
read-only
prompt
timeout=1
vga = normal # force sane state
lba32 # overcome the 8 GB limit
# End LILO global section
image = /boot/vmlinuz # image to boot
root = /dev/hdb5 # root partition
label = Linux # appears at LILO prompt
alias = l
After each change of this configuration file the modifications must be written back
to disk by executing /sbin/lilo.
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