On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:19:24PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > * Michael Stone said: > > Better how? You've made the easiest step of the whole process marginally > > easier by saving four words of the explaination. The process is > > mechanically just about identical. And now the person is sitting in > > front of a prompt like this: > Hello? Are we on Earth, or I'm missing something? Ever had to deal with a > rookie and trying to explain to him how the boot process works and that he > has 2 secods to type "so many strange things"? Yeah, you're missing something. It seems to be a habit in this thread. This is an excerpt from the manual you could have looked at yourself: Immediately after it's loaded, LILO checks whether one of the following is happening: - any of the [Shift], [Control] or [Alt] keys is pressed. - [CapsLock] or [ScrollLock] is set. If this is the case, LILO displays the boot: prompt and waits for the name of a boot image (i.e. Linux kernel or other operating system). Otherwise, it boots the default boot image* or - if a delay has been specified - waits for one of the listed activities until that amount of time has passed. So the newbie has to hit *one* key during bootup, then you take as long as you need to explain the rest of the process. I don't consider *one key* to be "so many strange things." Mike Stone
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