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
