/boot/message
YY Lee
98. I 'cat /dev/null/ > /boot/message' which emptied the
'/boot/message' that now says '0 byte' but still showing LILO prompt as:
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Welcome to LILO the operating system chooser!
To list the possible choices, press <TAB>.
To load one of them, write its name and press <ENTER> or wait 5 seconds
for default boot.
--
while 'typescript' says it's empty:
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Script started on Sat Sep 23 15:11:25 2000
~ # ls -l /boot | grep message
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 23 15:05 message
~ # exit
exit
Script done on Sat Sep 23 15:11:37 2000
Is there a trick to reset LILO prompt after editing '/boot/message'?
Justin Dubs
news:39CD2D25...@extra.lafn.ORG...
Yes! LILO is a bootloader, which means that it loads your kernel.
Therefore, it doesn't even mount your root partition, much less read the
/boot/message file. The message is hardcoded into your boot sector. After
editing /boot/message or /etc/lilo.conf you have to rerun lilo so it updates
everything. So, just do a quick /sbin/lilo and you should be fine. Good
luck,
Justin Dubs
Garry Knight
>Is there a trick to reset LILO prompt after editing '/boot/message'?
Yes. Run lilo:
$ lilo -v
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Garry Knight
garry...@bigfoot.com
sena
>
>Is there a trick to reset LILO prompt after editing '/boot/message'?
>
message file.
Regards, sena..
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YY Lee
> I heard YY Lee <cc...@extra.lafn.ORG> saying:
> >
> >Is there a trick to reset LILO prompt after editing '/boot/message'?
> >
> My guess is that you forgot to run "/sbin/lilo" after editing your boot
> message file.
>
I did 'lilo -v' while '/boot/message' was all empty. So it didn't work.
I pop 'vi /boot/message' and insert a space, did again the 'lilo -v' then
it werks!