RedHat tweaking
 

I am wondering what you must do to force RedHat to boot to a plain console-style boot: prompt rather than the annoying RedHat Linux Lilo selection screen - the blue background, ugly, etc. - I know I can hit CTRL+X to get it, but how by default? I had thought of removing the message = /boot/message line from lilo.conf but don't know if that will do it. Any clues?

can't you just change the run-level in inittab to get you to console? or is this a lilo question?

i s'pose it's more of a lilo question. I'm referring to the 1st screen that comes up, it's the lilo boot screen, but the redhat graphical version of it. You can hit ctrl+x to get the text mode version, like what you see in slackware and other distros. I wanna know how to disable that.
wouldn't be run level, cuz it hasn't even loaded the image yet.

i think in lilo.conf, there is a line that states map or something like that, if you remove it, i think it will only boot without the image map for lilo.... but you might want to check out first.. i am not at my linux machine and don't know for positive unless i was in from of one.

i might try that. seems like the map file is necessary part of lilo. I might be wrong, but I am hesitant to remove something I'm not sure of for something as trivial as this.

Don't mess with the map line in lilo.conf, linux needs that to find things. I'm not sure but it could be a line that starts with message= in the lilo.conf file. If there is a line that starts with that, try commenting it out and rerun lilo.

Mmmm... it wouldn't be that. The "image =" line refers to which kernel boot image you want to load. Does anyone know if it might be the message file? The line reads:
message = /boot/message
When i check the file by running
#file /boot/message, it ID's it as data, but it is a jumbled mess of ASCII characters if I open it in an editor. Could be the image I want to get rid of.

You're right!!

I had meant to suggest look for a line with message= and try commenting it out and rerun lilo.

Cool. I'll give that a shot.

If you haven't yet, check out this thread for some stimulating thought: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=4891
I'd appreciate your imput.