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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm wondering, I've read all the how to's and they didn't mention it, but is
> there a way for me to get LILO to display a standard message and then the boot
> prompt. Something like, "Please type linux or dos for windows at the prompt". If
> so, how do I do it?
There are 2 ways, one of which should already work on your system.
Simply hitting the alt ctrl or shift key should show you some instructions,
a list can be found with the use of the tab key.
Hitting enter will load the first image defined in lilo.conf.
The other way is to define a "message-file" as described in 'man lilo.conf'.
> Also, id there any way ?I can turn the timeout off, so that
> it just waits till someone types something in? If not, what is the maximum
> timeout?
I dont think so, eliminating the delay= line in /etc/lilo.conf will tell
lilo not to wait at bootime and load the first image defined. Futher more
the man page does not say what the limit is for delay=tsecs 10th's of a
second.
Depending on which distribution you have, the full lilo README can be found
in;
Redhat /usr/doc/lilo-x.x.x/
slackware /usr/doc/lilo/
debian /usr/doc/lilo/
suse /usr/doc/packages/lilo/
Hoe this helps.
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
> Cheers,
> Dom
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