[ale] LILO...?

[charlie]

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Dave Brooks wrote:

> ALE-
> 
> Ok, I just installed slackware 3.2.  The only problem is, that when my
> system boots, it give me a "LILO"  and thats it.  It dosent give me a
> chance to even type 'win' so i can boot to Windoze.  (in my old version
> of RedHat I got a LILO boot:  prompt, at which I could actually type). 
> Is there anything in /etc/lilo.conf I can edit to change this?

You can do two things.  Leave it the way it is, and when you machine
boots up just press shift.  That will stop it from booting to the default
OS.  TAB and ? will list your possible choices.

OR

You can change this by changing lilo.conf so that there is no default
boot up.  Right now you should have a something like this:

# LILO configuration file

append="ramdisk aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 hd=2100,16,63 hd=1056,16,63"
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 50		<----This is the line to delete.  Then put prompt here
vga = normal    # force sane state
ramdisk = 0     # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  image = /zImage
  root = /dev/hdb2
  label = linux
  read-only


Take out the line that says delay= and replace it with prompt.  Then you
will be asked for which image to boot from.  Re-run lilo and now your
computer will wait.  


						        Charles Hubbard
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