Lilo

Mikey242 · 08-29-2003, 08:16 AM

Hello. I just recently ran into a little problem with LILO, WindowsXP and Mandrake9.1.

I was playing around with the settings for LILO in linux and when I rebooted my laptop LILO automatically logs into Mandrake and dosent give me a choice of OS.

I found a workaround by setting a passoword in LILO to log into Linux and when I type it in wrong i can then type in "NT" to log into windows.

I really dont want to have to this that way. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

vanquisher · 08-29-2003, 08:37 AM

hi mikey,
i think you must've set thetime out to 0
so, open lilo.conf and check out the time out option. or, what happened with me was, my 'Enter' key got struck and I thought it was the problem with lilo

let me know what happened.

Mikey242 · 08-29-2003, 08:40 AM

Hey I checked the timeout and its still set to 10seconds. I cant be sure thou cuz at the moment im not on my linux machine (at a library). I will be sure to double check it when i get back, thanks (i dont thinkt hatts the problem thou).

vanquisher · 08-29-2003, 08:56 AM

hey Mickey,
Can't figure out what else can screw lilo. well, try giving NT as the default option and see what happens. Also, just double check the boot images for various options. If you can't figure out what's happening, sorry man...can't help you any further.