[Voyage-linux] How to show LILO menu at ALIX?

[Pavel Vávra]

Hi,
  last one note: it is not neccessary to change gtkterm. Gtk term send "break" by pressing Ctrl-B, as I found in its menu. Thank you again, Rob for pointing me to the right article.

Pavel

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:43:57 +0100
Pavel Vávra <plamen at square.cz> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:00:46 +0100
> "Rob J. Epping" <rob.epping at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pavel,
> > 
> > 2010/3/2 Pavel Vávra <plamen at square.cz>:
> > > Hi Jon,
> > >  thank you, my LILO config is similar (I think that default timeout is set to 2 seconds, but it is not relevant. The difference between LILO and GRUB is, that GRUB displays its menu by default, but LILO waits for timeout without displaying its menu. To display LILO menu on standard console it waits for Shift key press. Then user can select item from menu and boot non-default kernel.
> > >  ... and I ask if someone know how to send this "Shift pressed" event via serial console, or if any other workaround works.
> > 
> > I found an linuxjournal article [1] on google. which s
> > 
> > ------ begin quote ------
> > Using the SERIAL option, LILO sets a two second delay (the same as
> > when you put a delay = 20 line in the lilo.conf file) before booting
> > the default kernel image. During this pause, you can interrupt the
> > boot process and get the LILO prompt by sending a break to the
> > terminal as you press the SHIFT key on your main console.
> > ------ end quote -----
> > 
> > [1] <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2040>
> 
> Mmmm, so it should work as usually. It doesn't work for me. Thank you for info, I'll try to change my serial console program. I use gtkterm and I think that it sends nothing when I press Shift key.
> Thank you for info, Rob. I am going to find better console.
> 
> Pavel
> 
> 
> > -- 
> > GRTNX,
> > RobJE
> > 
> 
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