Re: [SLUG] modifying boot msg from RH

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 21:28:49 EDT


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Larry Brown wrote:

> Anyone know how to successfully modify /boot/message and the .msg files
> for custom configurations for kickstart?

I believe /boot/message is plain text. I know nothing of *.msg, but their
name implies they're plain text too.

> I was able to open message as a jpg, but it failed to display on boot
> afterward.

That was probably your viewer grasping at straws.

After you modify it, you have to run /sbin/lilo to make it take effect.

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