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LPI certification 101 exam prep, Part 4
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3. Booting the system
  


An important LILO gotcha page 7 of 18


Before moving on to GRUB, there is an important gotcha to LILO. Whenever you make changes to /etc/lilo.conf, or whenever you install a new kernel, you must run lilo. The lilo program rewrites the MBR to reflect the changes you made, including recording the absolute disk location of the kernel. The example here makes use of the -v flag for verboseness:


# lilo -v
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Mapping message file /boot/message
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
Added linux *
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.

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