[ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO

[Steve Jones]

I didn't have the man pages handy, but I was thinking that it was shorter..I
know that I got caught with it being too short and booting into
windows...looks like I got it wrong...oops

Steve

-----Original Message-----
 From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop at rocketship.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 11:03 AM
To: Steve Jones; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO


Steve, are you sure? Timeout=50 on my system (RH5.2) is a 5 second delay.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
 From: Steve Jones <SJones at btsquared.com>
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO


>Uh, an important thing...
>
>if you have a "timeout=50" you may have a hard time getting back to
linux...
>that is only 50 milsec to tell it that you want to use linux and you have
to
>be in linux to configure lilo.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop at rocketship.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 9:51 AM
>To: jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com; ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO
>
>
>Jeff, change your lilo.conf to look like this:
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>other=/dev/hda1
>   label=win
>   table=/dev/hda
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>   label=linux
>   root=/dev/hda8
>   read-only
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com <jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com>
>To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
>Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 9:35 AM
>Subject: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO
>
>
>>
>>
>>I looked through various HOWTOs and READMEs but I didn't find the answer
to
>this
>>question:
>>
>>Ona dual-boot Linux/Win95 machine, how do I change LILO's default boot OS
>(i.e.,
>>the one that boots when the LILO prompt times out) from Linux to Windows?
>>
>>BEFORE YOU FLAME ME, consider that since Win95 will probably crash a lot
>more
>>often that Linux, it would be nice if, when Win95 is up, it rebooted back
>to
>>Win95 without human intervention.  See my logic?  ;-)
>>
>>Here is what my lilo.conf looks like:
>>
>>boot=/dev/hda
>>map=/boot/map
>>install=/boot/boot.b
>>prompt
>>timeout=50
>>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>> label=linux
>> root=/dev/hda8
>> read-only
>>other=/dev/hda1
>> label=win
>> table=/dev/hda
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>- Jeff
>>
>>
>