2 <title>Installation of Lilo</title>
4 <para>We have chosen Lilo because we feel comfortable with it, but you
5 may wish to take a look elsewhere. Someone has written a hint on
7 url="&hints-root;grub-howto.txt">&hints-root;grub-howto.txt</ulink>,
8 an alternative boot loader.</para>
10 <para>Install Lilo by running the following commands:</para>
12 <para><screen><userinput>make &&
13 make install</userinput></screen></para>
15 <para>It appears that compilation of this package fails on certain machines
16 when the -g compiler flag is being used. If you can't compile Lilo at
17 all, you should try to remove the -g value from the CFLAGS variable in the
18 <filename>Makefile</filename> file.</para>
20 <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will print a
21 message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to complete the
22 update. Don't do this as it has no use. The /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
23 yet. We will complete the installation of lilo in chapter 8.</para>
25 <para>Maybe you'll be interested to know that someone wrote a hint on
26 how to get a logo instead the the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take
27 a look at it at <ulink
28 url="&hints-root;bootlogo.txt">&hints-root;bootlogo.txt</ulink>