Bug 118776 - lilo: timeout to select macos/linux boot is sometimes too short, make it configurable
Summary: lilo: timeout to select macos/linux boot is sometimes too short, make it conf...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh All
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Joachim Plack
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Reported: 2005-09-26 11:54 UTC by Joachim Plack
Modified: 2006-11-15 07:57 UTC (History)
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Description Joachim Plack 2005-09-26 11:54:41 UTC 
On Fri, Sep 23, harryc wrote:

> The problem I am having is that I only get the "Press spacebar to boot
> OSX" prompt for maybe 2 seconds before yaboot comes up. How can I make
> that prompt appear longer? I have Linux set as the default in LILO . If
> I make OSX the default I have the opposite problem.

Edit /lib/lilo/lilo-pmac.lib, line 242. The single 3 is the number if seconds.

            echo "get-msecs d# 3 3E8 * +"

We should make that a config option.
Comment 1 Joachim Plack 2005-09-26 11:55:06 UTC 
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Comment 2 Matthias Fruehauf 2006-04-25 12:43:59 UTC 
Jack, is this done? Or should me make it an enhancement for later?
Comment 3 Joachim Plack 2006-11-15 07:57:44 UTC 
there will be a new config variable 'macos_timeout' pretty soon.
It defaults to 5 seconds currently.
lilo version >= 10.1.21