Yeah, you're right. The man says the default is infinite. So, just
delete the timeout line. What I don't understand is why 50 on my laptop
means 5 seconds, whereas 300 means 6 minutes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: will [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 3:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Inspiron 3200 + Linux
>
>
> 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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