About message in lilo

[Fotos Georgiadis]

Marios-Angelos Trivizas wrote:

> Eixa ena Suse 7.1 kai to soutara. Eixa omws kratisei
> to lilo.conf kai tin eikona /boot/message pou emfanizei
> ton tux sto menu tou lilo.
> 
> Evala loipon Slackware 8.0 kai evala tin eikona sto lilo.conf:
> message=/boot/message


Elpizw na katalaba ti 8es. To 'message' sou tipwnei keimeno prin bgei to 
"LILO:", diladi prin epilexeis to image pou 8es na fortwseis. Koinws to 
message den exei na kanei tipote me tis vrwmikes eikones tou tux. Elpizw 
na min ennoeis framebuffer support pou ontws sou deixnei (sto default 
option) enan pigouino stin panw aristeri gwnia tis o8onis _ka8ws_ 
fortwnei o pirinas.

Estw omws oti mperdeutikes kai ontws 8es na fortwseis mia eikona sto 
menu tou lilo xwris fb kai loipes vlakeies:

Apo to manual tou lilo.conf: " bitmap=<bitmap-file> ... May not be used 
if 'message=' is  specified."

Episis xreiazesai kai tis: bmp-colors=,bmp-table=,bmp-timer= kai 
opwsdipote install = /boot/boot-bmp.b 'i kati antistoixo. Des to man 
lilo(8) kalitera gia na katalabeis ti ginete me tin ka8emia option.


> etre3a lilo kai mou eipe oti i message einai poly megali......


Arketa pi8anon ... diabase parakatw.

 
> En tw meta3y h version tou lilo tou 7.1 einai palioteri apo
> tou slackware 8.0.....


Vasika auto pou piges na kaneis einai ena unbelievably UGLY hack pou 
fisika den doulepse ;-) Diabaze kalitera ta README kai ta mans tin 
epomeni fora. Gia tin akribeia to README.bitmaps, leei osa 8a sou pw kai 
sigoura perisotera.

H SuSE eixe ena agria patcharismeno (mallon pechokomeno itane :) lilo 
sto SuSE-7.1 pou emfanize to bitmap se 800x600 nomizw. Ama diabaseis to 
parapanw file 8a deis pws to official lilo branch epitrepei BMP 
(bitmaps) se 640x480x16 (nai nai 16 xrwmata mono, alla mporeis na kaneis 
foveres eikones me dithering). Gi' auto sou leei pws to bitmap pou exeis 
(ama einai bitmap edw pou ta leme :) apo tin SuSE einai megalo.


> Kamia idea kaneis???


> Pou mporei na vrei kaneis tetoies eikones
> kai pou mporei na vrei pio einai to format tous???


Xmmm, ean 8imamai kala to lilo-22.0 exei dio bitmaps mesa kai dio 
examples (lilo.conf) gia to pws ta douleueis. Alla ap' oti 8imamai to 
lilo tou slack-8 (pou den itane to 22.0) den ipostirize to bitmap akoma.

Egw pantws ekana mia anava8misi sto lilo-22.0 kai eftiaxa kai edw ena 
lilo.tgz (slack package). Ama to 8elei kaneis as to zitisei na to kanw 
upload kapou, mazi me tin fwtografia pou xrisimopoiw kai to antistoixo 
lilo.conf.

Gia na diapistwseis kai monos sou (ti arxeio einai auto pou kratises):
% file /boot/message


> Thanks,
> 
> Marios Trivizas.
> 

Kalinixta,
-fotos

PS. Stin arxi elega na kanw attach tin 18Kb pic, gia na dei o kosmos ta 
katar8wmata mou, alla xalali sas ;-)

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