%general-entities; ]> Lilo configuring You are nearly ready to boot to the new temporary system. One of the last things to do is to ensure that the system can be booted. The instructions below apply only to x86_64 machines on which lilo is going to be installed. Information on using a pre-installed Grub on machines currently running as x86 or x86_64 multilib should be available in the usual resource-specific locations for those architectures. If you have installed an x86 version of lilo, these instructions should be modified to refer to the lilo and keytab-lilo.pl commands you installed on the host system. If you have multiple systems on your machine using a different bootloader such as grub, you may prefer to use that instead - consult the appropriate documentation. The rest of this section assumes you are going to use lilo. Earlier, we compiled and installed the Lilo boot loader software in preparation for this step. The procedure involves writing a boot image to a specific location on the hard drive. If you have a floppy disk drive, or if you have installed a cd recording program, we highly recommend using mkrescue to create a Lilo boot floppy, or CD (using e.g. dvdrecord from dvdrtools) as a test and as a backup. Normally, you interact with lilo by using the cursor and enter keys to select from the available option(s), but sometimes it is necessary to add other boot options, such as e.g. 'init=/bin/bash' to debug boot failures. The more your keyboard layout differs from the US qwerty layout, the harder it will be to type boot options unless lilo knows about your keyboard layout. So, we will create a key table for Lilo (.ktl) file - at one point in the documentation these are referred to as .klt files, which may be a typo, but has been followed by some distros. The name, and location, are not important but it is conventional to put these in /boot with the name representing the key layout. For a British keyboard layout, the following command will achieve this: keytab-lilo.pl uk >i${LFS}/boot/uk.ktl The argument to the command is the name of the keymap, or if necessary you can specify the full path to the keymap. Use whatever is appropriate for your keyboard. The next step is to create /etc/lilo.conf cat > ${LFS}/etc/lilo.conf << "EOF" # Begin /etc/lilo.conf # lilo.conf # # global options boot=/dev/<bootdisk> keytable=/boot/<keytable> lba32 map=/boot/map prompt # set the name of the default image to boot default=lfs # define an image image=/boot/lfskernel label=lfs root=/dev/<partition> read-only # optionally add parameters to pass, e.g. # append="video=radeonfb:1024x768-16@70" # if you had an existing system, you could # add its details here. EOF Replace <bootdisk> with the name of the disk (or partition) on which the boot sector is to be written, e.g. sda. Replace <keytable> with the name of the keytable file you created, and <partition> with the name of the root partition for the new system. The following command will overwrite any current boot loader. Do not run the command if this is not desired. If you have cross-compiled on a different machine from the target, you must install the bootloader on the target machine, the installed boot block is not a file which can be copied with tar. Run Lilo: /tools/bin/lilo-static -v