diff -ru elilo-3.0-old/choosers/simple.c elilo-3.0/choosers/simple.c
--- elilo-3.0-old/choosers/simple.c	Mon Jul  2 02:00:46 2001
+++ elilo-3.0/choosers/simple.c	Mon Jul  9 23:32:04 2001
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@
 	/*
 	 * autoboot with default choice after timeout expires
 	 */
-	if (first_time && (ret=wait_timeout(elilo_opt.timeout)) != 1) {
-		return ret == -1 ? -1: 0;
+	if (first_time && (ret=wait_timeout(elilo_opt.timeout)) == 0) {
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	for (;;) {