Bug 8879

Summary: options PROMPT and LOCK conflict
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Stig Hackvan <stig-redhat-bugzilla>
Component: liloAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description Stig Hackvan 2000-01-26 00:46:20 UTC 
Subject: lilo: prompt & lock


i find that i'm frustrated by the behavior of the prompt and lock
directives.
I want lock to change the default boot image, but not to override
prompting.
when both options are used together, there is no delay for prompting and it
is very difficult to get a lilo prompt by pressing shift as the keyboard
buffer is cleared by the bios just before lilo runs.

        thanks
        stig
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 05:04:59 UTC 
This is unfortunately the way that lilo works.