According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
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> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
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> > According to Dominic McDonald-Aveyard: While burning my CPU.
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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?
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> > 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.
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> > The other way is to define a "message-file" as described in 'man lilo.conf'.
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> > > 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?
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> > 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.
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> You could use the "prompt" option. (see man lilo.conf)
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I did'nt mention that one because of the possablity of the system not
booting if it is rebooted via a remote link.
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Regards Richard.
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