Kevin Brosius on Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:52:00 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] lilo issues


Bill Jonas wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:42:14AM -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > If you don't get the LILO: prompt at all, then it didn't get installed
> > in the MBR.  If you do, and it's a text prompt, hit TAB and check out
> > the bootable partitions list, otherwise you should be getting a LILO
> > menu immediately which lists the bootable partitions.
> 
> Note that <tab> works at LILO's 'boot:' prompt.  To get that prompt, hit
> the left shift key.
> 

I knew I was missing something... Thanks!

(The boot behaviour is controlled by a couple options.  If you don't
have a delay set, which I've never tried, I don't know if you see the
lilo prompt at all.  But normally you should see some indication lilo is
booting the machine.)

-- 
Kevin Brosius


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