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The boot prompt

 

Immediately after it's loaded, LILO checks whether one of the following is happening:

If this is the case, LILO displays the boot:" prompt and waits for the name of a boot image (i.e. Linux kernel or other operating system). Otherwise, it boots the default boot imagegif or -- if a delay has been specified -- waits for one of the listed activities until that amount of time has passed.

At the boot prompt, the name of the image to boot can be entered. Typing errors can be corrected with BackSpace, Delete, Ctrl U and Ctrl X. A list of known images can be obtained by pressing ? (on the US keyboard) or Tab.

If Enter is pressed and no file name has been entered, the default image is booted.





Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995