Hi, I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos, or whatever to boot the desired operating system. There was also a way to have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it which one to boot. I would like to have that same sort of thing setup now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore.
When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as "annoying", and for some reason it won't boot linux for me. Instead of entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition. Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described? I basically want the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98). Thanks, Rich