HI Anne, Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say "5" on that line. I did know about the problem with exiting without saving so that wasn't the problem either.
It did work in grub mode but I like eye candy (KDE vs GNOME? I was all for gnome till kde3 - no contest now) so I refused to just accept the situation. I did figure it out though. Here is the answer in case someone else has a similar problem. The problem was Trends ChipAway virus detector in my BIOS. While in GRUB mode the boot process slipped right though without a hitch. When in Graphical mode Trend would pop up telling me there was a boot virus and I had to tell it to continue before it would move on then it gave me the text screen. When I disabled Trend it worked perfectly. Thanks Russ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wednesday 01 Jan 2003 7:05 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > can anyone tell me how to change lilo to graphical instead of text? I am > using MD9 download and I have messed with the setting in Mandrake > Control Center - Boot Config. No matter what I do in there it doesn't > seem to change anything. > > Thanks > Russ In the file :/etc/inittab there is a line id:5:initdefault: In your case the 5 will have been set to 3, I think. As far as I know, altering the boot in MCC will simply change this, so it should be safe to do that. Just make sure that you have a boot disk handy, in case I'm wrong !! The problem with MCC is that it is too easy to exit without saving changes, so I guess this happened with you - you saved the first time, but not subsequent ones. Anne
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