Re: Lilo

[Konrad Mierendorff <mierendorff@gmx.net>]

Mats Johansson wrote:
> And the problem is that the LILO prompt comes up on the on screen and 
> the boot prompt also comes up becouse i use the prompt option but i 
> can't typ anything it is very strange and when scroll look is down it 
> come up alot  of *interrupted* messages as it should but i cant'stil 
> type anything 

Solution: Don't press scroll lock :-)

> , and when the timout has readched my linux boots as 
> usual.I have installed Linux with lilo a lto of times before and never 
> got this problem.


> delay=20
  ^^^^^^^^

You might try skipping this one as a delay is rather senseless when
prompting for input.

> timeout=20
> 
> compact
> prompt

- Konrad