I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed.
Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
-rw-r--r-- root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message
Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?
Is this a new grub or kernel file?
Kind Regards,
Keith
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On 07/15/2012 02:10 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed.
Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
-rw-r--r-- root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message
Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?
$ file message message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199], 8-bit colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed
$ display message
and you see a CentOS logo. Splash screen on boot?
Mogens
On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed.
Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
-rw-r--r-- root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message
Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?
Is this a new grub or kernel file?
[hughesjr@localhost boot]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /boot/message redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos.noarch
[hughesjr@chakra boot]$ file /boot/message /boot/message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199], 8-bit colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed
This is the graphical image that grub uses when you boot. see this for details:
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.htm...
NOTE: This file is not new, it has been in /boot/ since the Red Hat Linux 5.x days at least.
On 07/15/2012 08:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed.
Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
-rw-r--r-- root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message
Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?
Is this a new grub or kernel file?
[hughesjr@localhost boot]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /boot/message redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos.noarch
[hughesjr@chakra boot]$ file /boot/message /boot/message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199], 8-bit colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed
This is the graphical image that grub uses when you boot. see this for details:
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.htm...
NOTE: This file is not new, it has been in /boot/ since the Red Hat Linux 5.x days at least.
I said GRUB ... I meant LILO :D
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?
On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed.
Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
-rw-r--r-- root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message
Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?
Is this a new grub or kernel file?
[hughesjr@localhost boot]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /boot/message redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos.noarch
[hughesjr@chakra boot]$ file /boot/message /boot/message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199], 8-bit colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed
This is the graphical image that grub uses when you boot. see this for details:
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.htm...
NOTE: This file is not new, it has been in /boot/ since the Red Hat Linux 5.x days at least.
Thanks Mogens and Johnny for your replies.
/boot/message is the Centos 5 logo that I see when doing a fresh installation from DVD.
I have moved grub to a seperate boot partition, and I have not noticed the Centos /boot/message file until now, which is why I asked what it was.
When Grub boots from my seperate boot partition, it uses the
[root@karsites grub]# file splash.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz: gzip compressed data, was "splash.xpm", from Unix, last modified: Tue Jan 27 22:38:12 2009
under /mnt/GrubBoot/boot/grub/
I moved Grub boot loader to a seperate partition to stop the grub.conf file from being updated when there is a kernel update. I like to change grub.conf manually myself, just in case there are any issues with a newer kernel.
Regards,
Keith
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