Re: [SLUG] modifying boot msg from RH

From: Larry Brown (larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 21:37:20 EDT


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 21:28, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Larry Brown wrote:
>
> > Anyone know how to successfully modify /boot/message and the .msg files
> > for custom configurations for kickstart?
>
> I believe /boot/message is plain text. I know nothing of *.msg, but their
> name implies they're plain text too.
>
> > I was able to open message as a jpg, but it failed to display on boot
> > afterward.
>
> That was probably your viewer grasping at straws.
>
> After you modify it, you have to run /sbin/lilo to make it take effect.

I can't cat it, it states it is binary. Same with .msg files.

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