configuring the multi boot, any help?

[greatunclebulgaria]

what do you need to configure the multi boot feature on mandrake 8? I want to increase the delay from 4 to 10 secs and make win98 load by default? Cheers =]

[bdg1983]

Does Mandrake 8 use Grub as the bootloader? I believe so.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the timeout line to reflect the number of seconds you want before the timeout.

Also edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file, changing the line which reads:

default = 0

to:

default = 1

The default parameter boots the list of operating systems in order, from 0 to n, so if windows is the second one in the list, default will be 1 to boot windows as default.

[greatunclebulgaria]

i never noted what bootloader it used, but thanks, ill try it out =]. the word sounds farmiliar so it probably will be.

cheers!

[greatunclebulgaria]

Ok, I tried what you said, although there is the boot/grub directory, the file you said isnt there , in fact there are no editable config files there at all, nor could i find one in /ect. I looked around in boot and I found reference to lilo boot loader, and i changed the config to that but it had no effect, also lilo had a message that was printed on the menu too, my bootloader doesnt, all it is is a blue screen thats says "Linux Mandrake". So maybe it doesnt use lilo either.... I changed the default boot to "Windows" from "Linux", this i believe was right as it listed the label for windows98 as windows further down and i changed the timeout from 50 to 100, and it didnt change the timeout at all. And yeah, I did save it =]. Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

[icedfusion]

mandrake 8 uses lilo.

To change the delay:

type:

mc -e /etc/lilo.conf

or edit /etc/lilo.conf your own way.

change the 'timeout' option to 80
change the 'default' to your win98 label

sorted.

ice.

[ 07 July 2001: Message edited by: icedfusion ]

[ 07 July 2001: Message edited by: icedfusion ]

[greatunclebulgaria]

alright, thanks mate, ill give it a go

[greatunclebulgaria]

no luck, it doesnt register my timeout changes (which is now at 80), its still 4 secs, and windows is the label for /dev/hda1 which is the partition for windows, I tried putting some other things in such as the table location for the drive but no luck at all.... would you need quote marks?? I see none for the other fields and none were there originally.... and what sort of quote marks if so?. ' ' or " "? Its a real laborous process trying all these things though, as i cant get on the net on linux because i use a certain isp which wont work on linux *cough*. I have to! Its the only ISP with free phone calls where I am lol. Im gonna have to change my telephone service to get the others =[. Which I suppose i'll be doing soon.

anyway, any help will really be appreciated, I dont get it...

[greatunclebulgaria]

im stupid =]

[miked13]

after u change that i think u need to run /sbin/lilo. Just get to a command prompt and type /sbin/lilo. Not sure if it will work though. Later

[greatunclebulgaria]

wohoo, thanks Miked13 and everyone else who posted, it worked!

I love you all!

[bdg1983]

From what I've read here in previous posts, I thought Mandrake 8 uses Grub instead of Lilo. Oh well at least the info for grub is there in case someone else needs it.

[stepdad]

Actually it can use either, but Lilo is the default for the installtion routine. You can select grub instead, but I've grown somewhat accustomed to lilo so that is what I use.

Stepdad