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[chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Reeves)]

Cheedu wrote:
> 
>         How can I display a picture while booting through lilo just like
> the corel linux. I know it is something to do with MESSAGE option in lilo
> but it didn't work when i tried to route it to a png file.

I haven't seen Corel Linux yet, so I don't know what you mean. If you're
talking about something similar to what gets put up just before the 'boot:'
prompt when booting the SuSE boot floppies, then this is simply done in LILO
with the message option, like you said. Put it in the global section as
follows:
message=</path/to/message/file>
where  is, well, the path to the message file ;-)

If you're meaning something that looks like a (proper) graphic, and remains
throughout the boot process where you normally see messages spewed out, then
they're probably using a custom framebuffer device. I this case there's no easy
way to get this working, and you'll have to end up digging in source files.

Hope that helps,
        Chris

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