Slackware instalation issues

[Steve Holmes]

Another thing you can do to hear a basic lilo prompt is to include the
following line to your /etc/lilo.conf file (at the beginning):
serial = 0,9600n8
This will cause lilo to speak through your speech synth; obviously,
change the 0 to a 1 if your synth is on the second serial port instead
of the first.

I also have 'prompt' in my file and I use timeout = 150 for a 15
second timeout.

I get delay and timeout confused but for whatever reason, timeout and
prompt work together for me.

I never heard of those second parameters before (single and emergency)
that sounds interesting.

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.
> 
> 
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