On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: >Hi, > >I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used >Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you >booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos, >or whatever to boot the desired operating system. There was also a way to >have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it >which one to boot. I would like to have that same sort of thing setup >now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore.
look at the lilo manual pages. you probably need to tweak the timeout= setting. >When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for >the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as >"annoying", and for some reason it won't boot linux for me. Instead of >entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the >only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition. if you press <tab> it lists the labels it knows about. each one of these is defined in /etc/lilo.conf >Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described? I basically want >the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time >out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I >want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98). man lilo.conf should give you all you need to make it do this.... dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| oOobodoO / We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo / fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
