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NAME
       liloconfig - interactive configure script for lilo

SYNOPSIS
       liloconfig

DESCRIPTION
       liloconfig  is an interactive program which will ask you a
       series of questions and write a lilo.conf(f) configuration
       file  for  you. It will also set up the Master Boot Record
       (MBR) so that Linux will boot from hard disk.  It is  nor-
       mally  run  automatically whenever you upgrade the lilo(o)
       Debian package.

       The configuration file generated by liloconfig is intended
       for  common installations; if your setup is complicated or
       unusual you should consider writing  your  own  customised
       lilo.conf.   To do this you should refer to the comprehen-
       sive  lilo  documentation,   which   can   be   found   in
       /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.

       If  you  have  already written your own lilo.conf then the
       script will ask you if you wish to keep it, in which  case
       it  will  check it for options which are incompatible with
       the current version of lilo and run lilo  to  install  the
       boot block.

       If  you have no lilo.conf or choose to overwrite it, lilo-
       config will perform three operations to  ensure  that  the
       Linux system will boot from the hard disk: install LILO in
       the Linux partition's boot record, install a  simple  MBR,
       and mark the Linux partition as the active partition.  You
       will be prompted prior to each of these operations, so you
       can skip them and perform them manually later on.

       The  automatically  generated  lilo.conf  contains helpful
       comments, so it might well be a good place to  start  even
       if you wish to roll your own configuration file.


AUTHOR
       Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>,
       Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>
       and Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>.

       Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this
       manual page.

SEE ALSO
       lilo(o), lilo.conf(f)

       lilo comes with extensive documentation; this can be found
       in /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.



                          September 1999            LILOCONFIG(G)