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. 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. -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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