RedHat tweaking

sancho5 · 07-30-2001, 03:49 PM

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?

isajera · 07-30-2001, 03:53 PM

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

sancho5 · 07-30-2001, 04:02 PM

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.

trickykid · 07-30-2001, 04:08 PM

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.

sancho5 · 07-30-2001, 04:11 PM

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.

linuxcool · 07-30-2001, 07:36 PM

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.

sancho5 · 07-30-2001, 07:55 PM

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.

linuxcool · 07-30-2001, 08:04 PM

You're right!!

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

sancho5 · 07-30-2001, 08:13 PM

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.