RedHat 8.0

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Oct 4 12:14:08 EDT 2002


Not sure, but it has been in Mandrake since at least 8.1 and RedHat
since at least 7.3 or so. From KDM, I can boot directly into Windows or
whatever without having to wait and make a selection from the lilo
screen
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:31, John R. Ghidiu wrote:

    so you are saying that kdm has an interface of sorts to lilo? what version
    of kdm is this?
    
    john
    
    On 4 Oct 2002, Cyber Source wrote:
    
    > kdm does, if the boot options is selected, whatever is in lilo will be
    > an option
    > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 09:13, John R. Ghidiu wrote:
    >
    >     which is why i said i suspect that gdm does not allow this. seems to me
    >     that this is the job of the boot loader, not the session manager, so
    >     perhaps kde is just 'talking' to the boot loader (grub, lilo, etc.)...
    >     thoughts?
    >
    >     john
    >
    >     On 4 Oct 2002, Cyber Source wrote:
    >
    >     > In that file, just points to gdmsetup, when running that, I see no
    >     > choice to show dual boots
    >     > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 07:05, John R. Ghidiu wrote:
    >     >
    >     >     AFAIK, gdm does not allow this (but i am running the version that came
    >     >     with ximian desktop 6 months ago). the config is in /usr/sbing/gdmconfig.
    >     >
    >     >     john
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >     >   I will probably put it back too, lol. I do like the ability to dual
    >     >     > boot from the kdm shutdown menu. gdm probably has a way to put this in,
    >     >     > where is the gui to config the gdm? Thanks
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >
    >     ----------------------------
    >     John R. Ghidiu
    >
    > john at rmdashrf.org
    >
    >
    >
    >
    
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    John R. Ghidiu

john at rmdashrf.org

    
    
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