I have no delay or timeout tags and my LILO waits forever (or at least
it's waited as long as I've waited for it to wait).
If I set the timeout value to 10, then the LILO loader will wait at
the LILO: prompt for 10 seconds, and if I don't press anything, it
will load the default boot image. If I do press something, like tab
for instance, then it will wait forever until I manually choose an
image to launch.
I've never used delay.
/willhelm
---Peter Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is an odd one, and I'm not about to reboot my computer right
now..
> hmm.. I wonder how long it's been up. Woah, 14 days, cool. I love
linux.
> Uhm, anyway, LILO has two options in the man lilo.conf. I was
looking at
> delay=whatever, but you have timeout here and I checked and it's
there as
> well. It's kind of funny:
>
> timeout=tsecs
> sets a timeout (in tenths of a second) for keyboard
> input. If no key is pressed for the specified time,
> the first image is automatically booted. Similarly,
> password input is aborted if the user is idle for
> too long. The default timeout is infinite.
>
> delay=tsecs
> Specifies the number of tenths of a second the boot
> loader should wait before booting the first image.
> This is useful on systems that immediately boot
> from the hard disk after enabling the keyboard.
> The boot loader doesn't wait if `delay' is omitted
> or is set to zero.
>
> So, what it looks like to me is that timeout is more for the
> password prompt than the boot itself. Delay appears to do that one.
At
> least, the default value. I'm thinking, delay=99999999 is going to
be the
> best bet here. I'm surprised LILO doesn't have either a better
> explanation or an option. delay=-1 might work.
> My silly little mind works in a way that says if you don't include
> either timeout or delay, it will just boot image1 real quick.
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, will wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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:
>
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