no it's something else, I read , install=/boot/boot.b
These entries tell LiLo where some files it needs are located. '/boot/boot.b' is a symlink pointing to either of these files: boot-graphic.b for a graphical boot screen, boot-menu.b for a text menu boot screen and boot-text.b for a simple command line boot interface.
Two switch between these interfaces, just change the symlink: ln -sf boot.b boot-[...].b. so, ln -sf boot.b boot-menu.b for text script ln -sf boot.b boot-graphic.b for gui script ln -sf boot.b boot-text.b for simple text script
I'm about to give ln -sf boot.b boot-menu.b a go, so if I'm wrong you know why I'm not around for a while. I've issued the command now, If I understand this correctly it switches the ymlink from boot-graphic.b to boot-menu.b
Thanks Mike of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the suggestion to read.
Later ==== Well I didn't lock myself out but the change didn't work, I gave the wong command, but I've become more cautious
I still cannot see what should be changed to what if any ?
here is my /boot directory with symlinks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls -l total 3729 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 23 2002 boot.0300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 10 2002 boot.b -> lilo/boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 Feb 22 2002 chain.b lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 14 19:26 config -> config-2.4.21-0.13mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44145 Apr 25 2003 config-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47295 Mar 14 2003 config-2.4.21-0.13mdk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 18 16:09 grub/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53117 Oct 30 2002 initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50477 Dec 9 12:18 initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 9 12:18 initrd.img -> initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 14 19:27 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.4.21-0.13mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441 Oct 30 2002 kernel.h-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441 Apr 14 2003 kernel.h-2.4.21-0.13mdk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 10 2002 lilo -> lilo-graphic/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-bmp/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-graphic/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-menu/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 2002 lilo-text/ drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Jun 20 19:37 lost+found/ -rw------- 1 root root 192512 Dec 14 19:25 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 22 2002 mbr.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80976 Feb 19 2003 memtest-3.0.bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 18 16:18 message -> message-graph ic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96382 Dec 9 12:18 message-graphic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Jun 18 16:18 message-text -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656 Feb 22 2002 os2_d.b lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 14 14:31 System.map -> System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490852 Sep 20 2002 System.map-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582935 Mar 14 2003 System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Jun 18 16:18 uk.klt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 9 12:18 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 880346 Sep 20 2002 vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1252778 Mar 14 2003 vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
So what symlink should be switched to what ?
John
Later Still ======= My lilo.conf says, install=/boot/boot.b
OK, but according to the above, boot.b -> lilo/boot.b is symlinked to lilo/boot.b
OK, but I think it ought to point to /lilo-menu/boot.b for boot-menu.b for a text menu boot screen
Does this make sense ?
John
Hi John,
I boot to run level 3 and use Xtart to get to my window managers. I use lilo in text mode which is a small blue window with the choices. If your talking about the big blue splash screen kinda like a monitor inside of a monitor that shows boot messages, I tried once before to find a way to disable it but to no avail. Even when I did my install I tried to deselect it from the individual packages on MDK but, when I tried to do that it wanted to remove an enormous amount of KDE packages! So I went ahead and installed it.
Read a post about this, doing a google and one recommendation was to.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash
I tried it and it got rid of the big blue splash screen on boot up. This I'm certain this not the right way, must be some config file to disable it. But as I said no more splash on boot and shutdown.
Hope someone has the answer I would like to know my self.
Mike
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