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From: "Stormjumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:06:02 +0800
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/> Angus, were you the original poster? > > forgive me if i got it all wrong, > but i think the original poster was facing a problem of > being unable to get back to his text based boot-up screen. > > /boot/message is a symbolic link to message-text or message-graphic. > > i guess if you re-create your message-text, > and symbolically link message to message-text > (and run lilo again?) > you may get back your text boot-up screen. > > well, working purely on guesswork here, > so pls correct me if i'm wrong. :) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:58 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Stormjumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 04:47:21 +0800 > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ > > > > > > > is that so? mine seems perfectly normal to me... > > > > > > # ls -l /boot/message-text > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 Dec 2 14:04 > /boot/message-text > > > > > > # more /boot/message-text > > > Welcome to LILO the operating system chooser! > > > > > > Choose an operating system in the list above or > > > wait 10 seconds for default boot. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:24 AM > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 5:20 pm, Stormjumper wrote: > > > > running Mkd9.0. > > > > > > So am I > > > > > > > message-text is Ascii text file. > > > > > > Strangest text file I've seen > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > > > Very strange......$ more /boot/message-text, in Konsole gives me an > apparent 147089 bytes worth of gibberish. > > > > ls -l /boot/message-text gives me: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147089 Dec 3 01:22 /boot/message-text > > > > ???? > > > > > > > > --Angus > > ************************************************************* Yes Stormjumper, I was the original poster on this topic. I have the sym link /boot/message and the file it is linked to, message-text. The only thing is that these files, along with others in /boot & /boot/grub are now an "unknown" file type containing strange looking data. Looks like something has caused this, and I'm suspecting that this is the reason lilo will not display the text menu that I had all along, since installing 9.0. If I can't read these files, would lilo be able to display them? I don't know anything about what this means. Just poking around. The following files in /boot are "unknown": boot0300, map, message-graphic, message-text, us.klt, vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk I have a bunch of "unknown" files in /boot/grub too. Anyone else see this? Anyone who is using the text menu for lilo? --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber *********************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *********************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *********************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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