Changing boot message during hardware config

**clintonian** · 03-12-2003, 06:24 AM

How do I change this message during the bootup? Example: in KnoppixKDE eadz has added "KNOPPIXKDE" in big ANSI lettering, likewise in KNOPPIX, the word KNOPPIX is in multi-colors. Where do you get at these to modify them?

Thanks in advance guys!

Clint

**god** · 03-12-2003, 06:29 AM

i was wondering the same for a harddrive install...

**SillyFly** · 03-13-2003, 08:29 PM

mount the /KNOPPIX/boot.img file.
this is an msdos fs.
in it you will find a file named 'miniroot.gz'
decompress it (gzip -d miniroot.gz).
mount the decompressed file - this is an ext2 fs.
then look at the file /linuxrc
this is a bash script that's doing about everything that happens in Knoppix until X starts....

just a quick note - keep in mind that the boot.img file has to stay exactly the same size (1474560, IIRC). if you add some bytes, just remove some remarks, and vice versa - if you remove some bytes - add some padding......

**clintonian** · 03-13-2003, 09:56 PM

Thanks a lot for the tip SillyFly! I'll get on that as soon as I get home. Can't wait to look into it. Even more interesting is looking to see if I can modify the login through here to boot to kdm rather than autologin by default as per my other post in this forum. Still haven't figured that one out.

Regards,

Clint