[lug] LILO timeout & single user HELP!!

Jonathan Briggs zlynx at acm.org
Mon Nov 26 12:40:33 MST 2001


Shannon Johnston wrote:

>
>Does anybody know how to interrupt lilo when the timeout is 0?
>

My favorite way is to wait until the BIOS is done, then hold down Alt 
and hammer on the L key.  You should see LILO say ***Interrupted, and 
the prompt appear.  You'll have to type fast, because if you pause more 
than 1/10th of a second (I think), it'll continue to boot the default.




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