Adding an entry to LILO In order to being able to boot from this partition, we need to update our /etc/lilo.conf file. The following lines get added to lilo.conf by running: cat >> /etc/lilo.conf << "EOF" image=/boot/lfskernel label=lfs root=<partition> read-only EOF <partition> must be replaced by the partition's designation (which would be /dev/hda5 in my case). Now the boot loader gets updated by running:
/sbin/lilo