The K Desktop Environment

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3. Using KBootSelector

KBootSelector should be pretty easy to use. When it is started (and the configuration is correct), a list of available boot options is presented. One of them is printed in bold face. That is the default boot option. If a next boot option has been selected, the radio button of that option is checked. That is, only when the Lilo hack is enabled in the configuration; see below for more information about what this Lilo hack is.

From left to right, the toolbar contains the following buttons. The first button activates the option you selected. That means that that operating system will be booted on the next boot. The second button is the cancel button; pressing that makes sure that no changes are made to the Lilo settings. The third button is the clear button. It clears the selection that is made, so that you can let Lilo boot its default operating system. The remaining three buttons are the configure button, the help button, and the about button.

3.1 The Lilo hack

At first, it seemed very difficult to find out what next boot option Lilo has. But, when I contacted the author of Lilo (Werner Almesberger), he showed my how to pipe the output of Lilo through two sed scripts to find out what the next boot option is. However, quite understandably, he could not guarantee that the script will work with future versions of Lilo as well.

So what I mean by the `Lilo hack' is using the sed scripts to find out the next boot option. If this doesn't work with your version of Lilo, simply turn it off. By the way: I use version 20 of Lilo, and I did not test this with other versions of Lilo.

Note that even when the Lilo hack is turned off, you can still use KBootSelector to select the next boot option.

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