Advantages over GRUB

Humans can install it
Humans can maintain it
Allows a higher resolution textmode

Testing

22.8

Tested on Unity Linux 2010 rc2 - 2010-07-20

* previously, I could use vga=324 * vga=0x31B = ? * vga=0x376 = 1600x1200x32

22.6.1

22.6.1, 2009-04-08. Probably on Unity Linux.

LILO textmode resolutions

TODO: Elaborate on this..

The old LILO had this syntax:

vga=324
vga=791

The new LILO uses this syntax:

vga=0x31B

1920x1600x32 ?

vga=0x376

Manually installing LILO

Here's the situation:

Given a hard drive
On which you want to have LILO working
On which lives a Linux distribution
But that Linux distribution does not have lilo

... how do you get LILO working?

Get a Linux LiveCD which has LILO. I used RIPLinuX 64-bit non-X.
Boot from that LiveCD
Prepare LILO
Set up an environment on which your existing distribution can be chrooted into
Send lilo.conf and lilo to that environment
chroot in
Run LILO

I have not experimented with bootable USB sticks. That would be a better thing to do.

d=sdb6
\echo
\echo " # setup.."
\echo
\mkdir -p /mnt/$d
\echo "   dev"
\mount /dev/$d /mnt/$d
\echo "   proc"
\mount -t proc proc /mnt/$d/proc
\mount -o bind /dev /mnt/$d/dev

\cp --verbose ./lilo.conf /mnt/$d/etc
\cp --verbose /sbin/lilo /mnt/$d

\echo
\echo " # chrooting in.."
\echo
\chroot /mnt/$d /bin/sh



This stuff can't be scripted.. so type it.
Although I suppose I could create /mnt/$d/script.sh and do a
chroot /mnt/$d /script.sh


\lilo -v

\echo
\echo " # Recovering from all of this.."
\echo
\umount /mnt/$d/proc
\umount /mnt/$d/dev
\umount /mnt/$d