lilo-config is a KDE based frontend to the lilo boot manager configuration. It runs out of the KDE Control Center. . If you want to use the menu entry to launch lilo-config, you need to install kdebase-bin since it uses the kdesu command to gain root privileges. . This package is part of KDE, as a component of the KDE administration module. See the 'kde' and 'kdeadmin' packages for more information.