Hello all, Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone knows were this thing lives? I checked the installed packages, but I didn't notice any obvious rpm's. I sure looks very pretty! :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available
On 3 Apr 2001, Koos Pol wrote:
Hello all,
Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone knows were this thing lives? I checked the installed packages, but I didn't notice any obvious rpm's.
I sure looks very pretty! :-)
It is part of the lilo package. In /etc/lilo.conf, the message= option tells lilo which picture to use. For some reason it did not come automatically here, so I tried playing with it myself. So far I have been able to get the picture to display, but the menu is complete gibberish. Please could someone send me the file pointed to by the message option in their lilo.conf? or tell me where I can find an example for calling mklilomsg? Regards Ole
Hello all,
Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone knows were this thing lives? I checked the installed packages, but I didn't notice any obvious rpm's.
I sure looks very pretty! :-)
It is part of the lilo package. In /etc/lilo.conf, the message= option tells lilo which picture to use.
For some reason it did not come automatically here, so I tried playing with it myself. So far I have been able to get the picture to display, but the menu is complete gibberish.
Please could someone send me the file pointed to by the message option in their lilo.conf? or tell me where I can find an example for calling mklilomsg?
Regards
Ole
I don't know if this will help, but my lilo.conf file has the following lines at the beginning. I doubt they are all relevant to your question, but this is obviously the section that does the menu on my machines both with clean SuSE 7.1 installs. The message file is a 65k non-text file in a format I don't know. I didn't make it, so I assume lilo did it for me (or it is just the background). boot = /dev/hda vga = normal read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message Hope this is useful. regards, Mark
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:06, you wrote:
Hello all,
Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone
knows
were this thing lives? I checked the installed packages, but I didn't notice any obvious rpm's.
I sure looks very pretty! :-)
It is part of the lilo package. In /etc/lilo.conf, the message= option tells lilo which picture to use.
For some reason it did not come automatically here, so I tried playing with it myself. So far I have been able to get the picture to display, but the menu is complete gibberish.
Please could someone send me the file pointed to by the message option in their lilo.conf? or tell me where I can find an example for calling mklilomsg?
Regards
Ole
The only help I've found for this is in the /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README.graphics. It says that you can use mklilomsg --help for the commands. The pictures have to be a certain size and color depth. -- Powered by SuSE 7.1, Kernel 2.4.2 KDE2.1.0 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:42:23 +0200, Mike said: | > > > Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone | > > > knows were this thing lives? | | > > It is part of the lilo package. In /etc/lilo.conf, | > > the message= option tells lilo which picture to use. | | The only help I've found for this is in the | /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README.graphics. It says that you can use | mklilomsg --help for the commands. | Thanks guys. That was the pointer I needed: cpwr@ernie:/home/cpwr > identify /boot/message message 640x480 PseudoClass 256c 64kb PCX 0.1u 0:01 ..and the rest is history... penguins, Pamela Anderson, F1 Ferrari, YF22 Raptor, wow... :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available
Mount the first cdrom. Run /cdrom/suse/inst-sys/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/mk_lilo_message / (Yes! / is the argument to the script - you have to tell the script which directory that is your root-directory.) The picture that is used is /usr/share/lilo/suse_640x480.pcx, BTW, but that's all in the script. Regards Anders tisdagen den 3 april 2001 19:42 skrev Mike:
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:06, you wrote:
Hello all,
Just discovered that 7.1 gives me a beatiful boot prompt. Anyone
knows
were this thing lives? I checked the installed packages, but I didn't notice any obvious rpm's.
I sure looks very pretty! :-)
It is part of the lilo package. In /etc/lilo.conf, the message= option tells lilo which picture to use.
For some reason it did not come automatically here, so I tried playing with it myself. So far I have been able to get the picture to display, but the menu is complete gibberish.
Please could someone send me the file pointed to by the message option in their lilo.conf? or tell me where I can find an example for calling mklilomsg?
Regards
Ole
The only help I've found for this is in the /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README.graphics. It says that you can use mklilomsg --help for the commands.
The pictures have to be a certain size and color depth.
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