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bocke

Member

Registered: 2011-07-15

Posts: 40

Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

LILO's wiki page is not up to Arch's standards and it's a bit archaic. New LILO versions (22.5+) got some new options that should be covered. I used LILO in Slack for a long time and am aware of some of the new stuff and looking at 23.2 man pages it seems there's even more.

As I am a newbie to Arch community I would first like to ask before changing anything in the wiki.

I am still using the default GRUB 1, but will switch to LILO today or tommorow (in order to be able to write from the experience, not the memory and to get a nice boot logo without the need to switch to messy GRUB2).

Last edited by bocke (2011-08-11 15:49:27)

ewaller

Administrator

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,292

Re: Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

Arch has an interesting hierarchy with regards to administration.  It consists of several projects flying in formation, each controlled by a different group of administrators.

As a Forum moderator, I have no influence over the wiki.  If you want, contact a wiki administrator listed on this page.

In general, I am sure they would appreciate and accept the effort, but contact them if you've any questions.

Thanks in advance for your contribution.

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filam

Wiki Maintainer

From: Portland, ME

Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 158

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Re: Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

If there have been notable changes to LILO it may be appropriate to swap the example configuration on the Wiki with the default one from their website. Personally, I believe placing an example configuration in a Wiki article is rarely worth the additional space. In fact, I'd recommend removing the example configuration currently in the Wiki article. Then take the information you added to the configuration and format it in Wiki markup.

Additionally, you can link to your configuration, with an appropriate explanation. If you host your configuration on another site, please select a service that will be accessible indefinitely.

Finally, in the future, I'd recommend opening a discussion on the appropiate talk page (e.g. Talk:LILO) and use the forum to get attention to an issue if it isn't receiving enough attention on the Wiki talk page.

bocke

Member

Registered: 2011-07-15

Posts: 40

Re: Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

Thanks for the advices. Just the info I needed.

I'll open the talk page on the wiki (I understand that's the standard procedure). Edited the first post accordingly.

I will update the post when something usefull happens on the subject to get your attention/comments.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

If you prefer, you can create the new article as a user subpage, like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … edirect=no which now redirects to the finished article moved to the proper place: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GPGPU
Before it was finished, it looked like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=151126

bocke

Member

Registered: 2011-07-15

Posts: 40

Re: Enhancing Wiki page for LILO

Thanks for suggestion. I opened the subpage on my profile after reading your response a couple of hours ago.

I didn't yet create/open the talk page,. Will do when I have some content ready.