I knew about single, but I didn't know about emergency. Are there any others? Greg On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:14:41PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > The safe install (or automatic) uses a very long delay. The trick without > going through the whole thing again is to use a text editor and edit > /etc/lilo.conf. There will be a line saying "delay=1000" or some number. > The delay is in tenths of seconds apparently, as when I had selected a 5 > second delay, it put in delay 50. Anyway, if you just want to boot > without any pause at all, you could use 0 as the delay value. I suggest a > short pause in case you have to type something. For example, hold down > the shift key during the pause and type "Linux single" and you would boot > in single user mode which is designed for maintenance because it doesn't > run most of the startup scripts and leaves networking off. Even more > extreme is "Linux emergency" which basically drops you at a shell prompt > without running anything but the bare bones. So, a 5 second delay is > about right for me. By the way, after editing the configuration file, you > would type "lilo" to reinstall Lilo. The other option is to just type > liloconfig and you would start over with the interactive Lilo setup. Good > luck. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
