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Questions tagged [lilo]

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Accidentally Deleted MBR; Don't Know Filesystem Type

I have a Linux derivative OS on a non-bootable hard drive. I'm currently using a LiveCD to help diagnose the issue; however, I mistakingly deleted the MBR in the process via testdisk. Is there any way to recover the MBR? Is this the same difference…
Benson Wally Tran
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How is /sbin/init found during lilo boot

I just cloned my root partition (in anticipation of a dist-upgrade), changed lilo.conf and fstab (in the cloned partition) and ran lilo. But alas the system won't boot from the cloned partition. I can see a few pages of unsuspicous kernel messages,…
Martin Drautzburg
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lilo.conf questions

I use lilo, and have two different kernels. One is newer and use KMS with it. What I would like to do, is to be able to set vga=xxx for only one of the kernels. Is this possible? I would also like to be able to code into lilo.conf options that I…
Jack
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How to avoid debian fall back to using lilo after update kernel

For some odd reason I have both lilo and grub installed on my dual boot debian/windows system. My default boot loader is grub, but after each kernel update my system starts using lilo, and I have to make a lot of work reinstalling grub in order to…
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Unable to boot from USB drive; boot configuration for pc is missing or damaged

When I tried to install slackware on my pc (Dell optiplex 780 with a Kingston 240gb ssd and a Hitachi 250gb hdd), along with windows 10, I got an installation error. Lilo Linux wasn't able to install. I tried to install it in the master boot…
NGC891
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Kali Linux and Bootloader problems

At first I was using Windows 8.1... I downloaded Kali and put it on flash memory. The options got me to either: -Browse live -Install I browsed it live a little then went to installation. Grub Fails Everything goes great till I get to retrieving…
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Can't Boot OS From 'Corrupt' Hard Drive; OS is not Windows/DOS/Linux

I am trying to boot an operating system called MS106, which is an operating system used for ultrasound machines; however, the during the boot process I get the prompt: "give root password for maintenance or press CTRL + d...." The OS is trying to…
Benson Wally Tran
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Add another OS to list at start

I have installed Windows, Fedora and Slackware on my laptop ( lilo is on mbr, and grub for Fedora is installed on first sector on sda6). How to add sda6 to show on beginning when I turn on computer, so I can enter in Fedora (like file menu.list on…
Damir
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Installing LILO on rEFI on Macbook which has 3 partitions: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux

My Macbook has Windows and Mac OS X installed already. I try to install Ubuntu on the unused partion and the installation is done. However, the Linux partition does not appear on the rEFI boot loader. My friend suggests me to install LILO or…
aladine
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Restore lilo after Windows installation

How can I restore Linux LILO boot loader after the installation of Windows 7 without using any external data storage (burning the CD or pendrive)?
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Repair Grub from inside the system (not using CD)

I was playing with Debian Jessie, installed it on a USB drive and (almost) everything was ok. In the end I noticed the original Grub (in the laptop's SSD) was over written. I'm able to login into Ubuntu 15.04, which is installed in the laptop SSD…
KcFnMi
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How to recover Kali linux password using LILO?

I forgot my Kali password and I tried getting into LILO single user mode but it still asks for root password (which I forgot). As a secondary measure I just ran init=/bin/bash The command runs but then it gets stuck when booting the system, I…
lob0
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Can't boot Windows after installing Linux

I have a partition /dev/sdb1, where my old Windows XP resides. All the files are there intact and I can see them, mounting the disk from Linux. Linux is on /dev/sdb2. But when I choose Windows in LILO prompt, it doesn't load. I have the following…
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Ubuntu apt-get upgrade breaks update-initramfs?

I ran apt-get upgrade on a Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit server. It upgraded lots of packages but failed here: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-server update-initramfs: lilo run failed for…
netvope
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How to Properly Configure LILO?

I want to use LILO instead of GRUB, so I got some questions about configuring it nicely. Here is my lilo.conf: compact lba32 boot = /dev/sda map = /boot/map image = /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.44-gentoo root = /dev/sda3 read-only What does the…
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