On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Larry Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 21:28, Eben King wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I can't cat it, it states it is binary. Same with .msg files.
Hm, well I think it used to be text; mine is binary too, so apparently it
is no longer. "file" says "/boot/message: data", so it doesn't know
either. You want to do this:
MESSAGE=<message_file> Specifies a file containing a message that is
displayed before the boot prompt. No message is displayed while waiting
for a modifier key ([Shift], etc.) after printing "LILO ". In the
message, the FF character ([Ctrl L]) clears the local screen. The
size of the message file is limited to 65535 bytes. The map file has to
be rebuilt if the message file is changed or moved.
? It looks like any text file will do. Check out
/usr/share/doc/lilo-*/README .
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