Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Installing and Configuring LILO

You should know where your Linux partition is before LILO is installed. You should also know if and where other operating systems are installed. For example (using the Linux df, or disk file usage command), partitions may appear as

$ df

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              6079464   2168440   3602200  38% /
/dev/hda1                21929      2421     18376  12% /boot

This simple example, typical of a single hard drive system, shows that the Linux /boot partition is installed on /dev/hda1, with the rest of the Linux filesystem resident on /dev/hda5 (there are other partitions present, such as swap and hibernation, but only those recognized are displayed). Here, LILO is installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of ...