Re: [Sheflug] Re: dual boot

[fred <nospam1045405695-4338 [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 14:42, Michael J. FORD(SCI) wrote:
> Following Andrew and Fred's comments I set about changing lilo.conf, this was the first time I have
> poked around Linux with a goal, rather than just poking around. Anway I tried Edit lilo.conf so far
> so good made the change I wanted but then could'nt save the change, I suspect thay vi has a purpose
> here but I am lost. Suggests on a postcard to the usual address.


The file is owned by root if you are logged in as a user switch user
with su command type in your password

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          761 Dec 31 22:01 lilo.conf


regards

fred
> 
> Further poking around in YaST solved my problem but It would have been nice to do it from the
> source.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk writes:
> >On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:39, Michael J. FORD(SCI) wrote:
> >> I'm using SuSE 8.0 dual booting with WIN 2000, can anyone tell me how I can change the length of
> >> time given on boot to select my OS? I currently have about 5 secs and would prefer about 30 secs.
> >
> >for grub comment out the timeout=10
> >
> ># timeout=10
> >
> >It will wait for use input on choice of OS
> >
> >regards
> >
> >
> >fred dodd
> >
> >> Thanks in advance
> >> 
> >> Michael
> >> 
> >> 
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