This is the prompt there talking about, I think that the documentation
that you have is either old, or starting for a differnat point of view
(they obvolusly have there lilo set to not prompt by default, hense the
Alt/Ctrl/Shift/...). Hitting tab should let you see the options (it's
proberbly the same as a '?', I'm not going to reboot to have a look ;)
> to which I have options to respond with dos or linux.
>
Yep, type 'linux <commandlineoptions>', eg:
LILO: linux super_duper_command_line_option=wizzy_go_faster_option
> I tried starting over and booting off my boot disk (floppy) that I made
> to see if I could come up with the ":" prompt somehow.
>
> I've gone off the deep end somewhere.
>
Don't worry, if you hit tab, you'll get something like this:
LILO:
linux dos
:
The LILO comes from the loading of LILO's various bits, it's not really
part of the prompt. (just to confuse you, my version of LILO has 'boot:'
as it's prompt)
> Anyone have any idea how I need to enter my kernel command line options
> at boot? What constitues "Boot your system with LILO"?
>
just typeing them in after linux when you get the LILO prompt.
> Can I just add the kernel command line options to the /etc/lilo.conf file?
> If so, where?
>
Yep, just stick in an:
append="super_duper_command_line_option=wizzy_go_faster_option"
in your lilo.conf file, the "" quotes are important ('' ones don't work).
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> JT
>
Bryn
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