Salamo 3alaikom

ya gama3a i need urgent help please
i have installed windows XP afterwards i installed Linux Mandrake 8.0

there is a problem i really think its toooooooo annoying and i hope u can help me deal with it which is that on booting there is screen shown in 3 seconds wants me to select Linux we 7agat tanya menha el windows(we tab3an el default beta3ha linux ya3ni law fi 7'ilal 3 sec law ma7'tartesh windows lazem yeda7'alny linux)
is there any way to elongate the time (ya3ni badal 3 sec yeb2o mathalan 30 sec or more) or a nother powerful mean

Thnx in advance

ya 3am GladiatoR this is ur 16 thread on this forum
haven't we said before to try to search before asking and making new threads everytime u meet a problem

and it is not a problem it is just a bad config for ur bootloader

is it lilo or grub

i think since u r talking about Mandrake

alll u have to do is to edit the file /etclilo.conf and u'll find there a sentence looks like " timeout="30""

change this number to 300

and again PLEASE SEARCH THE FORUM BEFORE MAKING NEW THREADS

hey , what boot loader u use ?? anyway according to the bootloader go to grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf and change the timeout variable to what you like but in lilo if you want to make it 30 seconds for example , then set the timeout to 300 .
then do not forget to run the boot loader . in lilo by doing
#lilo
#lilo -v

Safrout ... belmonasba i sent u twice to ur e-mail 3la 7ekayet Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 and u didnt reply at alllll

is it lilo or grub
how can i know my bootloader ( sorry but i am newbie in Linux)?


alll u have to do is to edit the file /etclilo.conf and u'll find there a sentence looks like " timeout="30""
where i have to edit it ?

thnx in advance

while installation you must have been asked for what to install lilo or grub..
anyway , as root run

#detectloader


and it should tell you .

where i have to edit it ?

what do you mean ??? for example if it is lilo do this :

ee /etc/lilo.conf

where ee is an editor command it may be emacs , vi , nano ..etc as you like...
but if it was grub .. then the conf file AFAIK is located in /boot/grub/
mainly : /boot/grub/menu.lst
so do

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst


hope that helps

note that if it is grub and you changed the configuration file

then you have to run

# grub-install /dev/hdn

where n (a,b,c, or d) according to you hard disk

Thanks all
thanks Jo-Jo
i found it Lilo
but there is no ee editor
i tried emacs but there is a problem
i wrote emacs/etc/lilo.conf
but there is a message saying file or directory not found
so what i have to do now?
thnx in advance

we 3ala fekra emacs hoa elly 3andy when i wrote emacs it producs a new coloured window .. but i wrote that line
emacs/etc/lilo.conf
in command prompt not in that editor ..
so is that right what i did?
thnx again

Originally posted by GladiatoR
we 3ala fekra emacs hoa elly 3andy when i wrote emacs it producs a new coloured window .. but i wrote that line
emacs/etc/lilo.conf
in command prompt not in that editor ..
so is that right what i did?
thnx again

#emacs /etc/lilo.conf

and try vi

regards

yes.. i tried #emacs /etc/lilo.conf and it produces the file or dirctory isnot found

and try vi

i will do

thnx again

Salamo 3alaikom
i tried vi /etc/lilo.conf
it works and shows the boot information including timeout when i try to edit anything i cant so i cant change the number of timeout
so what i have to do?
thnx in advance

you have to learn how to use vi
or try a gui editor if you cant use vi like kate

thanks alot
it works now with emacs
thank u all again

Originally posted by GladiatoR
Safrout ... belmonasba i sent u twice to ur e-mail 3la 7ekayet Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 and u didnt reply at alllll



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