On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:55, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:29 am, Michael wrote: > > > btw, i've been trying to run that command. i open up a terminal, su -, > > password, then type "append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off > > ide1=nodma", then hit enter, then type "lilo", and a bunch of stuff comes > > up that pretty much tells me it's rewriting all the append lines in the > > lilo directory, then i reboot, and nothing in the illo directory has > > changed. what am i doing wrong? > > Er, I think that you are supposed to open up /etc/lilo.conf in an editor (like > vi or kedit) then add those changes.
A few weeks ago I'd have still been confused after these directions. Specifically, That's "vi /etc/lilo.conf" "i" then puts you into edit mode, then make your changes then ESC to get out of edit mode, then ":wq" to write/save and quit. Your changes will be saved. All w/o quotes, as usual. > After that, still as root or su, from a shell, type in "/sbin/lilo" (without > the quotes). > > That will cause the changes to work the next time you bootup. -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #204611 ________________________________________________________________________
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