got what i needed with grub. as for my lilo questions, the way to get good answers is apt-get install lilo-doc. On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 03:11 gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > i want to invoke lilo via grub(2). > > so far all i've found is about replacing one with the other. not what i > want. i just want to invoke lilo on rare occasions. on harddisc. not > external media. > > does it have to be chainload? could it be more direct? so as to not even > require lilo to be installed into the head of a partition? > > if it does require lilo to be installed into the head of a partition, does > that presume it's an "mbr partition"? will it work on an efi partition? a > gpt partition? an lvm partition? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20201229/d7da83b8/attachment.htm>