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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: how do i choose a boot partition at boot time?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.023411.8491@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1jncnv$nbu@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:34:11 GMT
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- In article <1jncnv$nbu@agate.berkeley.edu> mao@triplerock.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson) writes:
- > i've installed linux 0.99pl3 on /dev/hda2 and ms-dos 5.0 on /dev/hda1 of
- > my portable computer's hard drive. i've installed lilo, and i can get
- > it to boot either ms-dos or linux (by changing the order of the relevant
- > lines in the config file), but i can't get it to prompt me for my choice.
-
- You can. Just hold down a shifting key ([Shift], [Ctrl], etc.) when LILO
- is being loaded. If your PC boots too quickly, you can either use the
- DELAY variable (in /etc/lilo/config, LILO 0.7 or newer) to let LILO wait
- a bit or the PROMPT variable to enter the boot prompt unconditionally.
-
- BTW, this is documented in the README and in doc.tex, section "The boot
- prompt".
-
- - Werner
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