* Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060512 02:16]:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:13:20AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > > Does it work with the etherboot filo btw?
> > >
> > > Yes; that's what I've been using. But it _only_ works if I guarantee at
> > > least
> > > 3 to 4 seconds of bootup delay; that's why I have the AUTOBOOT_DELAY set
> > > to
> > > 5. But that doesn't work for Filo 0.5 - maybe it tries to find the disks
> > > before doing the AUTOBOOT_DELAY?
> >
> > Yes, it immediately tries to load the menu.lst file. If you dont want a
> > grub style menu you can disable USE_GRUB to get the old behavior
>
> Actually, I was looking forward to having a GRUB style bootloader - for a
> production machine in a datacenter that's a nice thing to have.
can you add a delay(5); or delay(10); before grub_main(); in main/filo.c
and see if that helps?
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