“There are several techniques to minimize the risk of
passing LILO arguments at boot time and booting the system in
single user mode to get the root shell.“
“delay=X
This controls how long (in tenths of seconds) LILO waits for user
input before booting to the default selection. It should be set to
0 unless the system dual boots something else.”
“prompt
This forces the user to enter something, LILO will not boot the
system automatically. This will not reboot the server without a
human attendant. But, If you add a timeout option then the system
will continue booting after the timeout is reached.”