Re: Removing image from bootup in Woody
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:04:17AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> On 0, David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:43:49PM -0700, River Y. Liu wrote:
> > > You can just add this line in your /etc/lilo.conf in order to remove the
> > > little tux.
> > > append="video=vga16:off"
> > >
> >
> > I tried this - and other suggestions for the lilo.conf file
> > and at the boot prompt - but all to no avail.
>
> ... and then ran LILO, right? You probably did, but its worth
> checking, IMHO...
Er, well, <blush> yes, it _is_ worth checking. So I ran lilo, but
still no joy. Then I found a typo, corrected it and tried again.
Still nothing. Then I remembered to run lilo again. And it
worked! My god, isn't that font on a 25-line screen terrible...
Thanks,
David
>
> Tom
>
> > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:30:46 +1000
> > > John Habermann <j_habermann@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just installed Woody on old box using the 2.4 kernel option. When it
> > > > boots up the boot process stalls while the image of Tux is drawn in
> > > > the terminal. Could someone please tell me how to remove the image
> > > > from the boot sequence. I looked through lilo.conf and couldn't see
> > > > anything there and looked at everything in the /boot directory and
> > > > couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It takes longer to draw
> > > > this image than the whole boot process so I would really like to know
> > > > how to stop it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
>
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> Tom Cook
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>
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