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8
Booting and Boot Managers
Booting and
Boot Managers
This chapter introduces various methods for booting the installed system.
First, some of the technical details of the boot process are explained to help
with understanding the various methods. This is followed by a detailed
description of the default boot manager GRUB.
8.1 Booting a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2 Boot Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.3 Map Files, GRUB, and LILO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
8.4 Booting with GRUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.5 Booting with LILO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
8.6 Configuring the Boot Loader with YaST . . . . . . 222
8.7 Uninstalling the Linux Boot Loader . . . . . . . . . 226
8.8 Creating Boot CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
8.9 S/390, zSeries: The Boot Loader ZIPL . . . . . . . . 229