none menu in lilo

On Friday 28 July 2006 20:10, Dances With Crows stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

That other poster would be me. ;-) And indeed, it is as was explained earlier by John-Paul Stewart elsewhere in this thread, i.e. without thepromptentry, LILO will only display a menu when you press the leftShiftkey.

Other than that, theTabkey also works to bring up a horizontal list of possible kernel images or third party OS entries - named by their aliases if applicable - to boot from, and pressing theEnterkey at the boot prompt will boot the default choice.

It is also possible to set a 640*480 pixel background image (in bitmap format) to the LILO menu. Themanandinfopages will give more clear instructions on that.

I myself have not been able to fully analyze where the graphical background screen in my own LILO set-up comes from. As you could see from what I pasted and what I wrote in the other follow-up, Mandrake chose to set it up using a file *-boot-message,* which appears to contain only binary data in an unspecified form.

Odd, because MandrakeSoft - now Mandriva - was not exactly a distributor who proprietarized things... :-

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)