July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 4: Boot Methods
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If you are using LILO and you later modify /etc/lilo.conf or rebuild the kernel, you
need to rerun the lilo command, create a new bootsect.lnx file, and replace the
version of bootsect.lnx on the Windows NT partition with the new version. In
other words, you need to rerun Steps 2–6.
If you have any problems or you simply want to remove LILO or
GRUB later, you can reverse the installation procedure: boot to Win-
dows NT, change the system and read-only attributes on boot.ini,re-
edit boot.ini to remove the Linux entry, save the file, restore the sys-
tem and read-only attributes, and remove the Linux boot sector from
the NT partition.
Boot-Time Kernel Options
The earlier sections of this chapter described some of the options you can specify
when you boot Linux. There are many more options that can be specified. This
section touches on the ways to pass options to the kernel and then describes some
of the kinds of parameters you might want to use. The parameters in this section
affect the kernel and therefore apply regardless of which boot loader you use.
As always with Unix systems, there are a number of choices for the boot process
itself. If you are using Loadlin, you can pass parameters to the kernel on the
command line or in a file.
If LILO is your boot loader, ...
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