Re: change LILO form command line to menu

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya bill

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bill Kalebaugh wrote:

> I have used LILO for about 10 years on a number of different vendors 
> linux systems and
> I have never ran in to this before.

if it did it before ... it should still work with the new kernel

- make sure you still have the lilo.conf file
- mannually run lilo ... what does it say 

> When Woody boots up it is like a command line and you get no menu to 
> pick different kernels from.
> This was fine until I compiled a new kernel, lilo it, but I have no way 
> to pick it out to boot from.
> 
> How do you convince lilo to use a menu while booting???
>

add the message line ( see below ) if you want more messages displayed

c ya
alvin
 
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Jacob Bresciani

<clip>
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
#set to / partition
root=/dev/hda5
# Default menu for Debian. (Using the images from debian-bootscreen)
# from Philipp Wolfer <phil@newswriter.org>.
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
map=/boot/map


#
# if you want to add messages
# ------------------------------
# message = /boot/boot_message.txt
#

#can not remember what this was for...
delay=20
#ask first
prompt
#150 msec or 15 seconds
timeout=150
# Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, 
<mode>)
#set vga 1024x768 for stupid intel graphics extreme card
  vga = 791
#vga=normal
default=Linux-2.6.x
#for scsi emulation on cd-burner
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
         label=Linux-2.6.x
         read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25
         label=Linux-2.4.x
         read-only

other=/dev/hda1
   optional
   label="Windows"
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Jacob Bresciani