[Fedora-spins] adjusting the isolinux timeout

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Thu Jul 24 10:57:34 UTC 2008


DON.RAIKES at oracle.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Now that I have a working livecd kickstart file which provides brltty support (I am blind), I would like to make it so that my livecd doesn't have the 100 second wait in the isolinux menu. I will not be installing my livecd to disk, so I would like it to just proceed to the bootloader on the compressed kernel and boot into my cd.
> 
> As a blind user, I always wonder if the cd is working or not because it just sits there for so long that I would like to just speed things up a bit.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 

Hi Don,

You can configure the timeout with supplying, in the kickstart file:

bootloader --timeout=10 --location=mbr (for example)

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip



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