NAME¶

siloconfig - interactive configure script for the Sparc Improved boot LOader

SYNOPSIS¶

/usr/sbin/siloconfig

DESCRIPTION¶

siloconfig is an interactive program which will ask you a series of questions and write a silo.conf(5) configuration file for you. It will also set up a partition boot record, so that Linux will boot from hard disk. It is normally run automatically whenever you upgrade the silo(8) Debian package. The configuration file generated by siloconfig is intended for common installations; if your setup is complicated or unusual you should consider writing your own customised silo.conf(5). To do this, you should refer to the comprehensive silo(8) documentation, which can be found in /usr/share/doc/silo/ on Debian systems. If you have already written your own silo.conf(5), then the script will ask you if you wish to keep it, in which case it will check it for options which are incompatible with the current version of silo(8) and run it to install the boot block. The automatically generated silo.conf(5) contains helpful comments, so it might well be a good place to start even if you wish to roll your own configuration file.

SEE ALSO¶

silo(8), silo.conf(5)

AUTHORS¶

siloconfig was written by Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> as liloconfig(8) and adapted to become siloconfig by Davide Barbieri <paci@debian.org> and Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>. This manual page was written by Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag@roxor.cx>, based upon liloconfig(8) which was written by Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).