Quote Originally Posted by rrfish72
Where do I put anything? This is What I have now to change the timer.

Specifies the number of _tenths_ of a second LILO should
# wait before booting the first image. LILO
# doesn't wait if DELAY is omitted or if DELAY is set to zero.

delay=20

# Prompt to use certaing image. If prompt is specified without timeout,
# boot will not take place unless you hit RETURN

prompt
#timeout150


This does not change anything even after running lilo -v. I don't understand what you mean.
I've played with my new installation since my last post, so my memory of what it does is refreshed.

What I was trying to tell you, is that when the system throws up the LILO bitmap interface with the options in a list and the timer ticking down at the bottom of the screen, doing anything at all the OS can interpret as valid input disrupts the timer. If you push the down arrow key, changing the focus from the top (default) item to the second item on the list, the timer immediately stops ticking down and it'll sit there waiting indefinitely for the next input. It works that way on the CD-boot menu, too. If you push F2 or F3 for the other options screens, the timer is disrupted and it won't proceed until you've finished typing in your command line input.

If you change your "#timeout=150" line to become "timeout=3000", I think that would make the thing wait a full 5 minutes before applying the default image. ( 3000 / 10 = 300 ---> 300 / 60 = 5 )

I haven't tried monkeying with any of these LILO settings yet, so I'm not really up to speed re. what you'd have to do to make that change stick. Maybe just changing the contents of LILO's config file is enough?

Hope this helped.