Can't remember lilo.conf

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Sat Jul 3 14:50:50 UTC 2004


Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote:
> 
>>Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>><snip>
>>-
>>
>>>In the top part, before the first "image=" line, there should be a
>>>line "default=_____".  The "_____" should be one of the "label=xxx"
>>>values in the following stanzas.  In your case, it should read
>>>
>>>default=win98
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>
>>Oh, and in case you weren't aware of this...
>>if you change lilo.conf do _not_ forget to run /sbin/lilo -v again 
>>before your next boot, or your changes will probably be ignored.
>>
>>Stuart
> 
> 
> Thanks, Stuart.  I forgot to mention that.
> 
> Cheers,
no worries. It's precisely for that reason (among others, so not that 
precisely then) that I switched over to using grub...

Stuart





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