Strange LILO situation

[eXtremist]

The other day, my mom complained to me that sometimes when she reboots, she is not given the choice of what OS to load.

I myself though she was full of crap, because I tried it a few times and never had the problem she did. So I set the default time for LILO from 5 seconds up to 10, thinking that would change the problem.

However, this morning I turned on my computer to find myself forcefully dumped into linux with no prompt, no nothing.. What's going on with my LILO? Why does it sometimes not appear?

Does anyone know this one?

[Molecule Man]

One of two things I can think of:

Your monitor takes a while to warm up, you do n't realize that post has gone through and Linux is the default for LILO.

The other is you didn't actually reboot.

[eXtremist]

Yeah.. They sound like the only logical answers, huh?

I can assure you I did reboot, because I turned the computer off last night (the power supply fan sounds like a jumbo jet).

As for the monitor not warming up, I guess that could be the answer.. But for some reason I don't think so. If there is no other explanation I guess I'll just set the LILO timeout for longer.

Right now its set to 100. I guess that means milli-seconds or something. I'm guessing that means 10 seconds. I'm gonna jump it up to 500.. Let's see if that solves my mysterious problems.

Thanks for the reply Molecule, I appreciate you taking the time.

[ph34r]

Lilo's time is in .1 second increments, so 50 would be a 5 second wait.

Can you post your lilo.conf file? Maybe something got re-done...

Also, for your momma's sake, why not set the default to windows?

[eXtremist]

Here's my lilo.conf file:


boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=300
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=Linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda1
label=WindowsME


Evverything looks fine to me..