lilo ignores timeout
 

Hi,

I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 and everything works perfectly. Dual boot OK, but the timeout in the lilo config is ignored when booting causing the system to wait for keyboard input. The timeout is set to 50 decisecs, but obviously this is ignored.
Any ideas for a solution?

Thanks in advance,

Aart

please provide your lilo.conf and ensure that you have actually ran "lilo" as root after changing the file.

My lilo config is

boot=/dev/hda
#install=menu
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb4"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb4"
read-only
other=/dev/hdb1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

Lilo was run as root

Aart