Re: LILO Problem - Interactive Boot Selection

[Chuck Mead <chuck moongroup com>]

When the Lio: prompt comes up hit tab, it'll show you the availble kernels for
booting... type the name of the one you want and hit enter.


On 31 Aug 1999, Jake Colman spewed into the bitstream:

> 
> I just created a new kernel and I want to interactively select whether to
> boot the new kernel or the old kernel.  As I understand it, I should either be able
> to automatically get a prompt where I can type a kernel name or, if I press a 
> key, manually force the prompt.  Neither seems to work for me.
> 
> Here is my /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
> $ cat /etc/lilo.conf 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> delay=40
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>         label=linux
>         root=/dev/hda6
>         read-only
> image=/boot/zImage-2.2.12-1
>         label=2.2.12-1
>         root=/dev/hda6
>         read-only
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 

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