Red Hat Linux 7.1: The Official Red Hat Linux x86 Installation Guide
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Installation Complete

Congratulations! Your Red Hat Linux 7.1 installation is now complete!

The installation program will prompt you to prepare your system for reboot. Do not forget to remove any diskette in the diskette drive or CD in the CD-ROM drive. If you did not install LILO, you will need to use your boot disk now.

After your computer's normal power-up sequence has completed, you should see LILO's GUI prompt, at which you can do any of the following things:

Press [Enter] — causes LILO's default boot entry to be booted.
Select a boot label, followed by [Enter] — causes LILO to boot the operating system corresponding to the boot label. (Press [?] at the LILO: for a list of valid boot labels.)
Do nothing — after LILO's timeout period, (by default, five seconds) LILO will automatically boot the default boot entry.

Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Linux. You should see one or more screens of messages scroll by. Eventually, you should see a login: prompt or a GUI login screen (if you installed the X Window System and chose to start X automatically).

Tip

	Tip
	If for some reason you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so by editing the `lilo.conf` file and then rerunning LILO. To do this, become root and then comment out (or delete) the line which reads `message=/boot/message` in the `lilo.conf` file. To comment a line out, insert the `#` character at the beginning of the line. Once you have done this, rerun LILO. To rerun LILO, type `/sbin/lilo -v`. The next time you boot, you will see the text `LILO:` prompt, as is seen in previous Red Hat Linux releases. You can re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding the above line back into the `lilo.conf` file and rerunning LILO.

If for some reason you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so by editing the lilo.conf file and then rerunning LILO.

To do this, become root and then comment out (or delete) the line which reads message=/boot/message in the lilo.conf file. To comment a line out, insert the # character at the beginning of the line. Once you have done this, rerun LILO. To rerun LILO, type /sbin/lilo -v. The next time you boot, you will see the text LILO: prompt, as is seen in previous Red Hat Linux releases.

You can re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding the above line back into the lilo.conf file and rerunning LILO.

	Tip
	If you are not sure what to do next, we suggest you begin with the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide (available online at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals if not included as part of your boxed set), which covers topics relating to the basics of your system and is an introduction to using Red Hat Linux. If you are a more experienced user looking for information on administration topics, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide to be more helpful. If you are looking for information on system configuration, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide to be helpful.

Tip

If you are not sure what to do next, we suggest you begin with the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide (available online at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals if not included as part of your boxed set), which covers topics relating to the basics of your system and is an introduction to using Red Hat Linux.

If you are a more experienced user looking for information on administration topics, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide to be more helpful.

If you are looking for information on system configuration, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide to be helpful.

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