Totally agree but the syslinux shipped in the boot.img on the Redhat 7.3 cdrom is like 1.50 and at 1.60 you could begin using splash images on boot up. I did this on 7.1 and 7.2 no problem... Run syslinux (the new one) against the boot.img and then open it up and add my .rle file for the splash image and change the boot.msg file to call the .rle.
I get that far , when it boots up I see the splash image and then the boot: like it is waiting for the start of the kernel... I press enter and then it fails... Am I causing the corruption due to the way I am opening the file or running syslinux against the boot.img file itself. Maybe I should dd the boot.img file to floppy... Then syslinux the floppy. Then open it and make the 2 changes. Then umount the floppy and dd the floppy back to the hard drive as boot.img Redo the mkisofs and burn again. What do you think? -matt chapman -----Original Message----- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing boot.img -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:39 am, Chapman, Matt wrote: > I have done the following. Opened up the boot.img from cd1 by the > following command: > > mount -o loop boot.img /home/matt/temp > > Then I cd to that dir and changed the text in the *.msg file. Then > umount /home/matt/temp > > I then do a syslinux (new version) to the boot.img file to update it > to the new sysimage... > > I then burn my cd with the appropriate commands. When I boot my cd I > get my changed text but then it says "missing or corrupt kernel" Now > before you ask... I did not touch the initrd.img or the vmlinuz file > at all! > > Any ideas? Am I mounting it wrong. If all you have done is modify the *.msg files, there should be no need to run syslinux. When creating bootable images, I generally format the disk (must be a dos file system) then run syslinux, then add the remaining files. Here is a snip from a script I use to create a boot disk: mformat a: || { echo "Error formatting the floppy disk, exiting." exit } echo "Running syslinux." syslinux -s /dev/fd0 || { echo "Error running syslinux, exiting." exit } echo "Copying files." mcopy base_files/syslinux.cfg a: mcopy base_files/boot.msg a: echo "Copying rootfs.gz." mcopy rootfs.gz a: echo "Copying the kernel." mcopy base_files/vmlinuz-rule a:vmlinuz - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjz220AACgkQn/07WoAb/SuXDgCghzIe/eAl++Mthy+VGl0NYl3i z3sAoJ+OFsrcgrRDnj2DxQwMmycHjC0L =V2vV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
