On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:24 pm, Meliton wrote: > "message-grapic" and "message" are clearly not text files (I viewed them > with cat - only saw rubbish). The first one's name is rather > graphical... "message-text" contains the following (on my system) > > Welcome to LILO the operating system chooser! > > Choose an operating system in the list above or > wait 10 seconds for default boot > > I imagine from this, and from the "-graphic" (though I admit my total > ignorance), that the three form the frontend to LILO. I suspect that it > is not here that you have to meddle to fix your booting problems.
I was going to sent my /boot/message-text, but it is 147089 bytes long. Could you please check the length of yours? I have never at any time seen a message like the one you quote! So now I wonder, have I got a corrupt file, and does it matter if I have? Anne
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