Custom LILO boot menus

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July 3rd, 2003, 01:51 AM
alittlebitnumb

Custom LILO boot menus

I have been sitting here about 9 hours trying to figure how to install a LILO graphical menu for Slackware 9, so I will not see the "blah" text screen. Here is what I did:

I downloaded the SuSE gfxboot package from http://members.optusnet.com.au/rkelsen/lilo.html and contains the two bianries "getx11font" and "mkbootmsg" to output boot files... okay, sounds easy enough. So I went into the sample directory where the two required files are located, namely somefile.config and somefile.pcx.

Easy to output the files, right? Not for me. I issue the commands to output the boot file, and get the error:

Not a PCX file

Heh, this came directly from the source tree, so I know it is not wrong. Perhaps I am issuing the wrong commands? Here is what I tried in the shell

..#getx11font fixed_10X20

and it seems to work ok, because there were no errors outputted. Next

..#mkbootmsg -c suselogo.config suselogo.pcx

where the manual reads the usage for the binary is

Quote:

-c config_file, --config config_file
Create a boot message file using this configuration.
-i, --info
Show info about file.
-h, --help
Show this text.

Where could I be going wrong? Have any of you made custom LILO screens before? Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am scouring Google as we speak.

Jack
July 3rd, 2003, 03:54 AM
sweet_angel

Hi,
Try instruction on this site http://www.madpenguin.org/article.ph...thread&order=0

Cheers

Annya
July 3rd, 2003, 04:35 AM
alittlebitnumb

That was very nice of you, but that's for pre-compiled boot screens. I now have little penguins running about, but I would like to create my very own, which goes back to the orginal problem.

To output somefile.boot, I need to utilize the package gfxboot. Alas, it's still not outputting correctly.

Anybody else have ideas?

Thanks,

Jack
July 3rd, 2003, 06:21 AM
alittlebitnumb

I finally figured it out, and yes, it was by looking on Google. I forgot to add the name of the output file.

Code:

mkbootmsg -c somefile.config OUTPUTFILE

The decumentation was not clear on that. So, for any of you wanting any custom LILO boot screens, PMm me.. I will be having fun :)

Jack