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Editing lilo.conf didn't worked ? what i did wrong?

Hi everyone, I am new here. :newbie:
I don't know much about linux, just got started. I just read that slackbook and know nothing more. So don't bite me if I go wrong. ;)
Ok, enough of intro. Lemme get to work.

I had windows 7 installed, working fine, then I installed slack 13.1. Worked fine, but at boot time lilo offered a timeout of 2:00 min. Which I wasn't quite cool with. So after logging in and all, I changed the /etc/lilo.conf file as root from this

Code:

# Timeout before the first entry boots.

# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:

timeout = 1200

Code:

# Timeout before the first entry boots.

# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:

timeout = 150

excepting that next time I'll boot I'll get a timeout of 15 sec, but nothing changed? I am again getting 2 mins timeout. I rechecked my /etc/lilo.conf to make sure its 150, and that's what it is.
So what's basically I did wrong, why didn't the timeout changed ?
Can anyone please help?

I am very surprise at the time out you have, (2 minutes is certainly not the default)
Always run lilo after editing the config.
In a shell (konsole) as root run the command lilo.
Should work after that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davno (Post 4039266)

Yep! It did the job, thanks man!
Appreciated.:D