-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Monday 30 Dec 2002 10:49 pm, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> I have found the "sleep 15" that gives you time to select the keyboard > but have not found the code that controls the wait at the boot prompt or > while waiting for you to select the number of lines and characters to be > displayed on the screen. (I admit that I have only a hazy idea of what > the rc.custom scriot is doing!) Never played with tomsrtbt disk at all - so YMMV. It sounds like what you're describing is the LILO configuration - that'll all be configured from the lilo.conf used to create the boot disk. If you can dig that out you'll find a "timout = " line there that specifies how long it should wait (in 10'ths of a second) at the boot prompt and you should also find a line saying "vga=ask" that is causing the system to ask you about which VGA mode to go into. > If I wanted to run a script on startup rather than getting a login > prompt what changes should I make? Hmm, it may be as easy as booting the kernel with the init=/my/script.sh from LILO, but I've not played with that for a long time. Can't remember if it has to point to an ELF executable rather than a shell script. Good luck! Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPhA4xI1yjaOTJg85AQHlawgAj+E5K4d3MKTrqVzmsk4JEPd23N6Ix3cJ NHiA2rYkaGZK/LjkHOGU2fG0Xh1dsxflrc4Je1y5U674qTjfTxSIYwzCfXG0cAx4 HVhHEGCREViAwaqkxwvNYXz67ouDunbzEpoA2zwSW85gpZd570H1kCPqmljSc1oe 3IUArMeyDuZEoexAgmf7WLoYWlAxCvfbNCqC6TTqZlI73BQ4Zo4uMtL8LXrqouTE 98iHnEwI4QN91lcb7Nv0RorXtJCo/0ETf/X6+8pQgQpaav14oEsitFBSu4hHhz8D sO8slhRvLGQX2wEtppAe+Zw6Vk4PZWdKAx9jS5ZJTl55cmiatZ/WMQ== =KvVX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
