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Although I can't directly answer your question, I do have a question for you. Why are you using LILO instead of GRUB? GRUB (from my experience) is much easier. Perhaps your distro only has LILO available?
I wish I could be more helpful. However, if you do have the chance to try GRUB sometime, try it. When I used Windows / Mandrake 9.2 dual boot LILO was the only option, but with Windows / Mepis GRUB is the only option and I like it much better.
I know it feels funny, but make the switch to grub it really is better, and yes I'v used both extensively. Go back to the live dvd of Sabayon, and it will give you an option to just update the boot loader. It will also give you the option to insert your slack into grub. works like a charm. hope you like Gentoo!
Both boot loaders are quite out of date as it is, but lilo is simply archaic, and possibly prone to problems.
I would absolutely disagree with that statement. Both bootloaders do the job they are designed to do. Bootloaders don't evolve at the pace of desktop software hence they may seem archaic. Certainly, age of software doesn't equate to bugginess of software. Most bootloader problems are not software problems but are mostly a misconfiguration. I use grub exclusively but I've used Lilo too occasionally. Although Lilo may be old, it is neither archaic nor buggy as far as I know. Veteran Lilo users will probably agree with me.
I wouldn't call myself a "veteran" lilo user, but I agree. I use it, and always have. It does exactly what I want it to do, in exactly the way I want it to. It's very easy too.
I would absolutely disagree with that statement. Both bootloaders do the job they are designed to do. Bootloaders don't evolve at the pace of desktop software hence they may seem archaic. Certainly, age of software doesn't equate to bugginess of software. Most bootloader problems are not software problems but are mostly a misconfiguration. I use grub exclusively but I've used Lilo too occasionally. Although Lilo may be old, it is neither archaic nor buggy as far as I know. Veteran Lilo users will probably agree with me.
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Originally Posted by johngreenwood
I wouldn't call myself a "veteran" lilo user, but I agree. I use it, and always have. It does exactly what I want it to do, in exactly the way I want it to. It's very easy too.
In that case, I apologize. The only reason I at first believed lilo was not of high quality was that the GNU project often speaks very negatively of it:
Another can of worms open! Heres the deal. I actually prefer the direct control I get over Lilo, and it is indeed a perfectly good bootloader, and in fact for certain applications it is better! For what noonmid27 is trying to do, it has been my personal experience that grub serves this purpose better for it's ability to auto read the images. Also, while lilo is the default for Slackware, the Sabayon DVD download has integrated Grub as the default loader, and due to the way Sabayon boots, it's just easier to use.
Personally I use grub but have tried distributions with both grub and lilo but my personal preference is grub. This is for it's simplicity and the fact that I have had to reinstall Linux several times when using Lilo and because of that personal bad luck I have chosen to steeer clear of distributions that use Lilo as their default boot loader.
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