Other Help Topics :: Changing Boot Graphics and Text

I found a post about this topic...

I figured out how to change the boot graphic, and the boot message. After it passes that stage I constantly get
'you passed an undefined mode number'
I edited lilo.conf and tried various settings. From numbers 1-9, normal, extended, hex numbers. I rebuilt lilo properly.
One thing to note, it didnt like vga= in the append, so I removed that and have it up higher.

I also want to remove the DSL text that comes up after the video modes, just before it 'scans for DSL on cdrom at...' The text has a big DSL in ascii art and proclaims the warranty. I understand that I must leave the warranty part in, but I want to remove the DSL text.

Any guidance would be apreciated.

-Saffo

The DSL text stuff is in the /etc/motd file. I think if you just edit that it will change.

hmmm.... actually I just tried that and it didn't change it. I guess it gets called from someplace else. I looked around and couldn't find it. I just figured that it was read from that file...

Anyone else know? I'm now looking for this for my own needs as well...

The text in /etc/motd is what you see when you log into DSL using ssh. The text which is shown on boot isn't part of the main DSL filesystem at all but is instead contained in /linuxrc of the initial ramdisk (minirt24.gz).

If you want to edit this try the following

cp /cdrom/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz /tmp
gunzip /tmp/minirt24.gz
mkdir /mnt/loop
mount -o loop /tmp/minirt24 /mnt/loop

This should mount the initial ramdisk on /mnt/loop you can then edit /mnt/loop/linuxrc to change the boot text.

Then use

umount /tmp/minirt24
gzip /tmp/minirt24

Finally remaster DSL with the minirt24.gz now residing in /tmp (see the remastering thread for more info)

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