Install the LILO Boot Loader
on a Hard Disk
The second &architecture; boot loader is called LILO
.
It is an old complex program which offers lots of functionality,
including DOS, Windows, and OS/2 boot management. Please carefully
read the instructions in the directory
/usr/share/doc/lilo/ if you have special needs;
also see the LILO mini-HOWTO.
Currently the LILO installation will only create menu entries for other
operating systems if these can be chainloaded.
This means you may have to manually add a menu entry for operating
systems like GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd after the installation.
&d-i; offers you three choices on where to install the
LILO boot loader:
Master Boot Record (MBR)
This way the LILO will take complete control of the
boot process.
new Debian partition
Choose this if you want to use another boot
manager. LILO will install itself at the beginning
of the new Debian partition and it will serve as a secondary boot
loader.
Other choice
Useful for advanced users who want to install LILO
somewhere else. In this case you will be asked for desired
location. You can use devfs style names, such as those that start with
/dev/ide, /dev/scsi, and
/dev/discs, as well as traditional names, such as
/dev/hda or /dev/sda.
If you can no longer boot into Windows 9x (or DOS) after this step,
you'll need to use a Windows 9x (MS-DOS) boot disk and use the
fdisk /mbr command to reinstall the MS-DOS
master boot record — however, this means that you'll need to use
some other way to get back into Debian!