Or, you can take the TIMEOUT line out of your lilo.conf file
altogether, thus using the default TIMEOUT value of infinite....
If you do a 'man lilo.conf', it'll walk you through the configuration
parameters in the lilo.conf file, what the defaults are, and what the
numbers involved mean.
/willhelm
---Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In /etc/lilo.conf, I changed the TIMEOUT parameter from 50 to
> 300. I had thought the 50 stood for tenths of seconds, because the
> default drive would start booting after about 5 seconds. However, it
> appears that the TIMEOUT is in whole seconds, because it now takes
about
> 6 minutes to pick a default. So you can simulate indefinite time by
> putting in a big number. Plus, you can change the default drive at
your
> Linux command line:
>
> /sbin/lilo -D dos
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Wagner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 9:27 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Inspiron 3200 + Linux
> >
> > THis one has already probably been answered, but i'm going to take a
> > crack
> > at it anyway.
> >
> > 1) Lilo has an option to NOT have you sit and wait for 5 seconds to
> > boot
> > in...it can wait indefinately. The command to do this escapes me
> > (it's a
> > setting in the lilo.conf file tho) so if this hasn't been covered
yet,
> >
> > someone look it up and post it pls.
> >
> >
> >
>
> ---
> http://nts.ml.org
> FAQ:
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/
> http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/
> List Archives:
http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html
> To unsubscribe send a message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
==
------------------------------------------------->>
-- Is this a game of chance?
-- Not the way I play it, no.
-- W.C. Fields
will o the wisps
http://www.varium.com/~mouse
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
---
http://nts.ml.org
FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/
http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/
List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html
To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
