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 image
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.