Non-interactive LILO boot
I read somewhere that you can boot LILO non interactive but still go interactive by holding down ctrl at start up or something, how do you do this? I don't really want to screw about in the boot sector much more without clear instructions as i worry for it's health....:cry:
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Tink P.S.: If I managed to find it, so could you ;) |
assumptions, patronising comments and sarcasm are the pleasure of most experienced linux users it seems, something i better get used to obviously... - you assume i would even know where to look for said readme and an indication of how you did find it would be much more helpful, rather than vague terse replies ended with a friendly dig
and i'll return your wink ;-) |
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Unfortunately the locations of files are fairly distro dependent... a way to find the readme in a generic fashion would be to Code:
[tink@notbock:~]$locate README | grep lilo readme's live in /usr/doc/<program name/version mumble> As a rule of thumb, there's nothing you can't find (given it's installled properly) using either of the following things or combinations thereof: man -k <topic> man -k <topic> | grep <narrow down> locate <thing in question if it's software> HIH ... and I didn't mean to be patronising, but just plain evil ;} Cheers, Tink |
Cool.
In your answer you have a few, er, commands for the command line: locate - which seems self explan grep - ? seen it about but what does it mean, no wait, i figured it out myself, that'd be the name of what you're looking for. man - suspect it has something to do with manuals but dunno I know "-k " would therefore be an option for man but what's -k for? And, before anyone says anything, yes, I could prolly find all this stuff on google or by reading all the manuals (if i knew where they were) and when i get a clue i will, till then i'll be making full use of this forum cos that's what it's here for. Cheers, Tink, that helped. :D |
Hi!
man is for reading manuals. If you type man ls in a terminal you would get the manual for 'ls' man -k means search man pages for keyword. If you type man -k boot you would get a list of all man pages containing the keyword boot. Lilo is in that list (at least on my machine). grep takes lines from standard input and returns lines with a special keyword. If you have a text file "myfriends.txt" with phone numbers to all of your friends and want all numbers to people named "Martin" you'd type cat myfriends.txt | grep Martin Regards Martin |
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man man would have been the way to go ;) Quote:
now you have no more excuses ;) Some of which, one has to say, are not as good as they could be. Some are too brief, others too exhaustive. But in general you should be getting along with man quite well (And the program related readme and other doc's that is ;}) Cheers, Tink |
cheers, guys, that's all really useful. ill be trying all that, i take it
man man is a manuals manual? and as far as reading the readme's goes...i always read 'em! it's just i've not known where to find them with linux. now i know, i'lll do my best but i'll be back, oh yes..... mwaaahahahahaha etc cheers, phil :D |
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