3.7. Boot Loader Configuration

You can boot Turbolinux FUJI from the boot disk without having to install the boot loader on the hard disk. When you select this option, the boot disk creation screen is displayed after the package is installed (Section 3.17). Even if you install the boot loader, you should create a boot disk to prepare for an emergency in which Turbolinux FUJI cannot boot for some reason.

Deselect this option if you do not install the boot loader. However, you can only deselect this option if you use a boot disk or use another boot loader so that you can boot the installed instance of Turbolinux FUJI whenever you want to do. Usually, do not deselect this option.

Specify whether to install the boot loader on the master boot record (MBR) or on the first sector of the boot partition.

Usually, select installation of GRUB on the MBR. The MBR is a special hard disk area on which a partition table containing partition information or the boot loader is installed. Once GRUB is installed on the MBR, activating your computer causes BIOS to load the GRUB instance installed on the MBR. The loaded GRUB activates Turbolinux FUJI. The /dev/sda part displayed varies with the environment. Since installing GRUB on the MBR overwrites the existing MBR contents, be careful when you use another boot loader.

Select "First sector of boot partition" if you use a non-GRUB commercial boot loader or similar program. Since the device specified as the /boot partition is displayed, the /dev/sda1 part displayed varies with the environment.

You can only select this option when you use LILO. As large-capacity disks of 8 GB or more are spreading, the number of cylinders often exceed 1024 in LBA mode. In general, before LILO can boot Linux, the kernel and other files used to boot need to be installed in a partition created within 1023 cylinders. If these files are installed in a partition that is beyond 1024 cylinders, select this option. By default, it is installed. Usually, therefore, no change is required. However, old computers may be unable to boot the installed operating system because of BIOS restrictions.

You can only select this option when you use LILO. Some SCSI drives and laptop PCs run in linear mode although most recent ones do not. Read the manual attached to your hardware and select this option if necessary.

You can specify parameters to be passed to the kernel at the time of booting.

Deselect this option if you use LILO for the boot loader.

This option prevents general users from viewing files within the system or specifying kernel parameters. If this option is selected, the root password is assigned to GRUB parameters. You should leave the default selected status as is.

Specify the OS that will be booted by default when the system starts. The initial configuration specifies that Turbolinux FUJI be booted by default. Therefore, if you are building a dual-boot environment and want Windows to be booted usually, you need to change the default boot image. To change the default boot image, select a bootable partition from the table at the screen bottom and select "Default boot image".

You can freely change the character string of the boot label. The boot label is the character string that identifies the OS that is booted by the boot loader. The boot label specified here will be displayed on the boot loader's initial screen when the computer starts. The default boot label of Turbolinux FUJI is "Turbolinux." If you build a dual-boot environment with Windows as one OS, the default boot label is "Windows_OS." You can select the OS to be booted, by selecting the displayed boot label.