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New /boot/message file?

By Keith Roberts at 07/15/2012 - 08:10

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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Re: New /boot/message file?

By Johnny Hughes at 07/15/2012 - 09:06

On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
[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:

<a href="http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.html" title="http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.html">http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting...</a>

NOTE: This file is not new, it has been in /boot/ since the Red Hat
Linux 5.x days at least.

Re: New /boot/message file?

By Keith Roberts at 07/15/2012 - 13:22

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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Re: New /boot/message file?

By Johnny Hughes at 07/15/2012 - 09:10

On 07/15/2012 08:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I said GRUB ... I meant LILO :D

Re: New /boot/message file?

By Mogens Kjaer at 07/15/2012 - 09:02

On 07/15/2012 02:10 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
$ 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