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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:50 PM

When does LILO get installed>
Does it get put on after RedHat is installed?
The reason I am asking is that I installed RedHat ver 7.1 and at no point
was I asked if I what the LILO.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:50 PM

In article <MPG.1a8646349047eaa49896b0@netnews.worldnet.att.n et>,
gargoyle <gargoyle47hunter@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> When does LILO get installed>
> Does it get put on after RedHat is installed?

I don't think I'd used 7.1 but IIRC with 7.2 and 8.0, it's before the
package selection, sometime around partitioning.

> The reason I am asking is that I installed RedHat ver 7.1 and at no point
> was I asked if I what the LILO.

You can (a) see if there's an RPM for it on the CDs; or (b) grab the source
and compile it.

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:50 PM

gargoyle <gargoyle47hunter@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> When does LILO get installed>
> Does it get put on after RedHat is installed?
> The reason I am asking is that I installed RedHat ver 7.1 and at no point
> was I asked if I what the LILO.

AFAIK, RH 7.1 did only come with one boot loader (lilo), so there
should be no question needed. However RH 7.1 is pretty old, so I
can't remember for sure.

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:51 PM

Your question has two answers, depending upon what you meant:

1. Somewhere early in the install, /sbin/lilo is copied to your disk. This
occurs during the install of the system utilities.

2. After all system, binary, and user selectable packages are installed, the
installation process creates /etc/lilo.conf; then it RUNS /sbin/lilo to
install the boot loader (boot sector) and to create the /boot/map file.

BTW: RedHat distributes a version of LILO that is >3 years out-of-date.

--John

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:05:27 GMT, gargoyle <gargoyle47hunter@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:

>When does LILO get installed>
>Does it get put on after RedHat is installed?
>The reason I am asking is that I installed RedHat ver 7.1 and at no point
>was I asked if I what the LILO.

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