To get this to work (It was JUST posted a bit back..thanks to who did...)
to indefinately wait (and I mean indefinately, not assumed indefinately,
but indefinately) simply put the word "prompt" in your lilo.conf in
replacement of the "timeout=" line. That should do it.
Douglas Wagner
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bailey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 2:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Inspiron 3200 + Linux
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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