On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:12:17AM +0530, shyam wrote:
>
>
> He was talking about the image that comes on redhat systems
> ( the penguin of rh7.1 and the redhat of 7 )
>
> the file is /boot/message. Its an ascii file find one and
> replace in your boot directory re-run lilo to finish.
>
> -shyam
> ps: you can see that file in any image viewer like zgv or
> gqview from your desktop ie /boot/message
>
> >---end quoted text---
Shyam,
I am not on RH. Having a file in /boot does NOT mean that
it is accessed by LILO. Here are some aspects of LILO which I
would like to bring to your notice ... this is from the source
code itself.
LILO on MBR/ boot sector essentially is just about capable
of passing control to the /sbin/lilo executable. It just gets
and reads the command line options, and lilo.conf options and
passes these on to the Linux kernel. All interaction with the
screen is through direct BIOS calls. At no stage in the exec-
ution of LILO does it initialise the video card/ or access any
video memory ...
Unless this is done it is very unlikely, that any image in
any format can be loaded by LILO itself. At best text messages
can be displayed with the "image=" option ... Well, that can
be ASCII art. As far as image files are concerned, yes, it is
possible during initial loading of the kernel after the video
card has been initialised.
IMHO, RH is probably loading Tux in the initial kernel load
period ... and not through LILO, which runs before the kernel.
Bish
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