<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Record LILO configuration</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Upgrading Red Hat Linux from a serial console" HREF="rhl.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Record network configuration" HREF="rhl-ifconfig.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Upgrade Red Hat distribution" HREF="rhl-upgrade.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="rhl-ifconfig.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix C. Upgrading <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >Red Hat Linux</SPAN > from a serial console</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="rhl-upgrade.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="RHL-LILOCONFIG" ></A >C.7. Record LILO configuration</H1 ><P >Record the current value of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >append=</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >boot=</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >linear</TT > in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/lilo.conf</TT >.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="RHL-LILOCONFIG-LILO" ></A ><P ><B >Example C-2. Displaying the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >LILO</SPAN > configuration</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><TT CLASS="PROMPT" >bash#</TT > <B CLASS="COMMAND" >fgrep append= /etc/lilo.conf</B > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8"</TT > <TT CLASS="PROMPT" >bash#</TT > <B CLASS="COMMAND" >fgrep boot= /etc/lilo.conf</B > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >boot=/dev/hda</TT > <TT CLASS="PROMPT" >bash#</TT > <B CLASS="COMMAND" >fgrep linear /etc/lilo.conf</B > <TT CLASS="PROMPT" >bash#</TT ></PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >If the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >boot=</TT > parameter points to a hard disk then <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >LILO</SPAN > is installed in the master boot record, or <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >MBR</SPAN >. It can also point to a partition.</P ><P >If the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >linear</TT > parameter is present then the hard disk that is booted from uses linear block addressing, or <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >LBA</SPAN >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="rhl-ifconfig.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="rhl-upgrade.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Record network configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="rhl.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Upgrade Red Hat distribution</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >