Installing Configuring LILO MBR | how to configure LILO boot loader in MBR-Master BOOT RECORD

LILO can be installed as the MBR-(MASTER BOOT RECORD) of the boot drive. System has one operating system or it contains two operating system windows and Linux.If the system has the two operating system OS/2 then LILO can be installed on the root partition of the hard drive. If the window Os is install then windows will overwrite MBR at the time of installation and then MBR of windows can be overwritten by LILO.
LILO boot loader installed in the following three ways.

1. From the Master boot record of the hard drive.
2. from the superblock of root partition on the hard drive
3. From the CD-Rom or Floppy disk

LILO can be installed for the first time using shell script named QuickInst
If LlLo is not installed at the time of installing Linux without using quickinst.
The user can still install LILO in two steps
File /etc/lilo.conf is created and configured
/sbin/lilo is run to install LILO and LILO will be made active

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