HD Install :: Altered lilo.conf but still nothing

Hi there,

I installed DSL with the dsl-hdinstall script. I want to change the hostname and start the ssh daemon at startup (before I log in) When I boot from CD I add the parameters host=box13 ssh and it works fine.
When I add these parameters to appender in /etc/lilo.conf, save it, run lilo and reboot the hostname is still box en no ssh daemon is started although the additional parameters ARE present in /proc/cmdline but are somehow ignored.
Where did I go wrong?

Yeah, i need to change it so it searches for myDSLs in a different partition than the image. How do I enter cheat codes or change lilo.conf. What's the difference between the /etc/ version and the /cdrom/ version.

As nobody thinks this is an interesting post I dug down into /etc/init.d/dsl-config myself. If $INSTALLED is set to yes (true after a harddisk install) all boot parameters are skipped...
I think editing /etc/lilo.conf is not the proper way to start processes at startup. I added some startup commands to /opt/bootlocal.sh instead.

Maybe a good idea for you too, Superlou

I thought the programs that loaded up at startup were in the .xinitrc file. I remember that there is a line in there for when dillo starts at startup with the dsl page.

.xinitrc starts programs along with X. If you boot into text mode the file has no effect.
bootlocal starts programs during the boot process, before dsl is logged in.
.bash_profile runs non-x programs when you log in. Depending on your shell, this file might instead be .profile

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