On December 2, 2002 06:15 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings.......another newbie ques. > I have changed the default boot time for lilo in MCC from 10 seconds to 30. > However, I need to know how I can change the text message to read 30 > instaed of the default 10. > > I am using lilo w/the text display. I have tried editing the file > /boot/message-text, but that hasn't worked. > > My default boot time has been lengthened, but the message still says 10 > seconds :-/ > > Can someone help. TIA. > > > --Angus
Howdy Angus; Have you looked at file:/etc/lilo.conf yet? You'd be looking at the line that says 'timeout=xxx'. In my case it's 50, but I only want a 5 second delay to choose a kernel to boot or allow default boot. So for the 30 second delay you want you'd have timeout=300, correct? After you change it open a terminal and type: su root password when prompted /sbin/lilo -v to register the configuration change. I'd do that anyway even if it already reads 300 since it's apparent that something isn't kosher. I still don't trust the Mandrake Control Center completely. Some of the things that made me smile during the beta/RC testing for 9.0 seem to have degenerated into a bad joke on those of us that raved about the new release before it was a release. <sigh> Such is life.... Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. -- Paul Beatty
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