Hello,

When I installed the slackware 13.1 iso dvd to my pc, I specified a partition of 10 GB with w95 fat format, and the rest for swap and the home system.
Now at each boot, the widow stops 2 min in the windows partition by default.

I want to change this to Linux, but I don't remember the file that needs to be configured.

;-) NjB

To change your boot default selection change/add a line for "default=" in /etc/lilo.conf. Run "man lilo.conf" for further information.

Note you'll have to rerun lilo as root to make the changes work.

As a newbie, what I did was edit /etc/lilo.conf and changed the countdown timer (I forgot the name) to 100 (10 seconds). To make Slackware as the first selected on the menu, I simply swapped the order or Slackware entry and my windows XP entry making Linux as the first entry on the menu. (Since by default, windows installation is listed first).

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make sure that you don't forget to run command 'lilo' as root after editing lilo.conf...

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Thank for the path
/etc/lilo.conf
I could then change the order of boot to linux first.

:-/ NjB /

Yes, I forget sometimes but it is easy to retry

as this thread is solved. but would like to make a point here..


change the /etc/lilo.conf file
move your desired entry orders ( at the bottom of file ) ( move linux first if you want this to be booted by default
change the default= value

once you save /etc/lilo.conf file

run below commands:

# liloconfig
choose -> expert
choose -> recycle existing lilo.conf ( dont remember exact string )

and you are done...

I appreciate this is a solved thread as slappyCruzer says but, (no offence meant), he is making more work of this than is necessary. There is no point changing any stanza order in lilo.conf and adding a default= setting - just do one or the other. The stanza appearance order is only honoured if no default setting exists. Personally I feel the easy fix is, as I originally posted, just add the default= statement to /etc/lilo.conf - then run lilo as root - job done. There is no point running the liloconfig script either - this is just a helper script to help initially setup a lilo.conf brought over from the install and overkill in this case - even when just choosing expert and recycle. I'm posting this for any future thread readers as there's no point taking more steps than are necessary to do this simple fix.