On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:35:04 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > >John, > > > >Try splash=silent. > > > >Tony. > > > > > Cannot, Had to do it the long way. > Add nosplash to append line in lilo.conf > move or rename the old initrd file in /boot > then, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img > 2.4.21-0.13mdk > mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) > then run lilo and reboot, > > I think if the current gui boot script didn't reduce my 17" monitor > to about 6" and if it gave me 50 lines of script I wouldn't mind > using it. But why they couldn't of thought up some decent easy to > remember and change switches for the appen= line, like guiboot and > txtboot beats me.Anything with splash in it is going to be confused > with the initial splash screen for selecting the OS. I changed the message line in lilo.conf to message=/boot/message.txt and created the referenced file with the single line: Tab or ? to list, <enter> to boot default If you pull up the supplied /boot/message file, you'll see all kinds of ANSI sequences, which is where the GUI boot screen is coming from. > > John > > > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Guy Rouillier
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