Debugging LILO
Although LILO is easily installed, it's really quite a complex set of programs and routines. Fortunately, most of the process is transparent to the user. However, because of the level of complexity, it sometimes fails when trying to determine disk geometry or the location of key files. This section describes the types of error messages that LILO produces and how they can be used in debugging LILO failures. Both the map installer and boot loader produce helpful messages for debugging purposes.
Map Installer
Two types of errors are reported by LILO—fatal errors and warning errors. As the name suggests, fatal errors are unrecoverable. Warning errors are just that, a warning that everything is not completely correct but that the map ...
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