Lilo

Tips And Tricks

Q:

Running

# lilo -v

I receive something like

LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger

Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman

Released 19-Feb-2007 and compiled at 03:08:28 on Mar 27 2011

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda

Using BITMAP secondary loader

Calling map_insert_data

Mapping bitmap file /boot/slack.bmp

Calling map_insert_file

Boot other: /dev/sda1, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN

Warning: Device 0x0800: Inconsistent partition table, 1st entry

CHS address in PT: 0:107:16 --> LBA (1513)

LBA address in PT: 2048 --> CHS (1:11:5)

Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified

If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)

What's that?

A:

Probably the partition table was not written properly. If you are sure the file

/etc/lilo.conf

is correct, you can just ignore this error message forcing Lilo to write MBR with:

# lilo -v -P ignore

Q:

I installed Windows 7 and Slackware, but forgot to or could not install Lilo, what can I do?

A:

Boot your Slackware DVD and at the first step, use those boot parameters

boot: huge.s root=/dev/LinuxPartition rdinit= ro

where LinuxPartition is the partition where you installed Slackware, in my case sda4.

It will boot the system installed in your hard disk.

Login as root, edit your

/etc/lilo.conf

properly and run

# lilo -v

Your boot manager will be installed.