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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: asdf on 2 February 2002, 08:25

Title: animated lilo
Post by: asdf on 2 February 2002, 08:25

www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo (http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/)

has anybody tried this yet? I can't seem to get the screen working.. it just uses text mode. Does this have something to do with my video card (ati mobility), kernel, or the version of lilo (I downloaded the one right from the SuSe site)?

Title: animated lilo
Post by: voidmain on 2 February 2002, 21:48

Hey, that's pretty slick, I just installed it on my RedHat 7.2 laptop.  It should have nothing to do with kernel version (since it is loaded before the kernel).  I doubt seriously that it has anything to do with your video card.  I just followed his directions to get this working, specifically:

1) downloaded/installed "gfxboot-1.4-30.i386.rpm" and "lilo-21.7.5-54.i386.rpm" from the SuSe 7.3 distro.

2) copied the *.boot files to my /boot directory (gunzip them first).

3) created /etc/lilo.conf for my system with the change to the "message" tag as he suggested

4) run "/sbin/lilo -v".

Done.

Here is my lilo.conf with Win2k on /dev/hda3 and RedHat on /dev/hda4:

prompt
timeout="100"
default="RedHat 7.2"
boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/penguins.boot
linear

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10"
        label="RedHat 7.2"
        initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img"
        read-only
        root="/dev/hda4"

other=/dev/hda3
        label="Windoze 2000"

[ February 02, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]