Did you run 'lilo' after the change?

bob


On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:15 am, Pieter Kubben wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure if this is a bug (it might be one called my name ;-) ) but
> I cannot change Lilo's OS order and default OS. I su'd as a root and
> used
>
> > emacs /etc/lilo.conf
>
> I changed the text behind default in "windows" instead of "linux" (if I
> don't I might get beaten up by the other family members ;-) ), timeout
> set to 40 and I put the win-part (/dev/hdc) at the top of my list
> (changed OS name from "nt" to "windows"), it is called "other" by
> category, then 3 times an image w/ linux and then "other" for floppy.
>
> However, in the boot menu, nothing has changed, linux still being
> default, windows is called nt and not at the top of my list, and timeout
> remains 100.
>
> I discovered in the same dir a file lilo.conf~ which has those default
> settings, but is read-only, dunnow it that has to do w/ it.
>
> How the heck do I change this permanently? Graphical or terminal, I
> don't care... it just has to work.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pieter


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