RE: LILO Problem - Interactive Boot Selection

["patrick" <patrick hci utah edu>]

I assume you are booting up with lilo...during bootup,
when the lilo prompt appears at the top of the screen,
type in "2.2.12-1" and hit <enter>.  You have 5 seconds
to enter this.  You could make it easier and rename
the 2.2.12-1 kernal label to something else.  I named
mine simply 2212 (that is:  label=2212 in lilo.conf.
Of course, you can name it whatever you like).  After
testing it and finding it all good, I then move the new
kernel portion of lilo to be the first in the list so
that it is the default kernel to startup.

If you hit <tab> at the lilo prompt, you will see the
list of choices you can enter (all based on the labels
in lilo.conf).  _You_ would see:  linux  2.2.12-1   dos
based on your lilo.conf.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Colman [mailto:colman ppllc com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:52 PM
To: RedHat List
Subject: LILO Problem - Interactive Boot Selection



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.

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