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 > > "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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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