* Michael Stone said: > > > mechanically just about identical. And now the person is sitting in > > > front of a prompt like this: > > > Hello? Are we on Earth, or I'm missing something? Ever had to deal with a > > rookie and trying to explain to him how the boot process works and that he > > has 2 secods to type "so many strange things"? > > Yeah, you're missing something. It seems to be a habit in this thread. Yeah, everyone's wrong - you're right, but you missed something as well, see below. > This is an excerpt from the manual you could have looked at yourself: > > Immediately after it's loaded, LILO checks whether one of the following > is happening: > > - any of the [Shift], [Control] or [Alt] keys is pressed. > - [CapsLock] or [ScrollLock] is set. > > 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^which is exactly 2 seconds on default Debian instal > So the newbie has to hit *one* key during bootup, then you take as long > as you need to explain the rest of the process. I don't consider *one Which is whole 2 seconds. marek
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