Getting a new LILO boot message

Paul King sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 8 16:08:22 UTC 2007


After looking at my message again, it looks as if I left out some important 
things:

I am using Slackware 11
The kernel is version 2.4.33.3

> Hi
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get LILO to show a new boot
> message. It used to be (IIRC) that you just needed to edit the boot
> message file (/boot/boot_message.txt) and run LILO. Now it seems to choke
> when it sees that my /dev/hda1 is on an NT partition, and wants me to
> somehow change the partition ID. Since this already works as it is, I
> aborted the command. While running liloconfig doesn't "choke" and is more
> accepting of the XP partition, it also doesn't seem to change the message
> to the new one.
> 
> If anyone can help with this, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Paul King
> 
> 
> 
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