On Monday 08 July 2002 10:10 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I wish I could have the old Penguin boot screen back. The modern green screen is pretty ugly, I think. --doug
Which raises the question of how one can get either the Penguin one or the modern one. I'm getting a much older one. Paul
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04.37, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 08 July 2002 10:10 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I wish I could have the old Penguin boot screen back. The modern green screen is pretty ugly, I think. --doug
Which raises the question of how one can get either the Penguin one or the modern one. I'm getting a much older one.
Do you have the package gfxboot installed? Also check that /etc/lilo.conf has a line message = /boot/message and that /boot/boot.b is a symlink to /boot/boot-menu.b regards Anders
On Monday 08 July 2002 10:44 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04.37, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 08 July 2002 10:10 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I wish I could have the old Penguin boot screen back. The modern green screen is pretty ugly, I think. --doug
Which raises the question of how one can get either the Penguin one or the modern one. I'm getting a much older one.
Do you have the package gfxboot installed?
What does gfxboot do? Also check that /etc/lilo.conf
has a line
message = /boot/message
and that /boot/boot.b is a symlink to /boot/boot-menu.b
Are there different versions of /boot/boot-menu.b and /boot/message for SuSE 7.x and SuSE 8.0? I observe that boot-menu is part of the package lilo, but /boot/message is, according to "rpm -qf", not owned by any package. Paul
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 19.27, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
What does gfxboot do?
It's the package where the lilo graphical screen is stored.
Also check that /etc/lilo.conf
has a line
message = /boot/message
and that /boot/boot.b is a symlink to /boot/boot-menu.b
Are there different versions of /boot/boot-menu.b and /boot/message for SuSE 7.x and SuSE 8.0? I observe that boot-menu is part of the package lilo, but /boot/message is, according to "rpm -qf", not owned by any package.
Then that's your problem, as I suspected. The upgrade has kept the old message file somehow. /boot/message is the image lilo displays on bootup. So install gfxboot and rerun lilo. //Anders
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04.37, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 08 July 2002 10:10 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I wish I could have the old Penguin boot screen back. The modern green screen is pretty ugly, I think. --doug
Which raises the question of how one can get either the Penguin one or the modern one. I'm getting a much older one.
The "penguin boot screen" I suspect has nothing to do with lilo. I think it's the graphics in the background while the bootup messages appear. To get that instead of the newer SuSE framebuffer graphics, the easiest way would be to uninstall the package splashanim followed by running /sbin/mk_initrd and /sbin/lilo. That should give you the kernel builtin splash (small penguin in upper left corner) instead of the SuSE thing. regards Anders
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