Re: designing a brand new NFS.

[Nitin Kumar Gupta <nitin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kousik

You are right, actually, I was working with an OS, where 0 means infinite
timeout.

Regards
Nitin

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Kousik Nandy wrote:

> Nitin Kumar Gupta wrote:
> 
> > Setting delay to zero means infinite delay, so the least he can set is
> > 1.
> 
> Ah, not exactly, I guess. From `man lilo.conf' I find that ...  
> 
> delay=tsecs
>               Specifies the number of tenths of a second the boot
>               loader  should wait before booting the first image.
>               This is useful on  systems  that  immediately  boot
>               from  the  hard  disk  after enabling the keyboard.
>               The boot loader doesn't wait if `delay' is  omitted
>               or is set to zero.
> 
> So just a `dd' might do the trick (but it'll show the message 
> LILO loading Linux ..... )
> 
> HTH,
> Kousik.
> 
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