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Animate Your LILO

Posted by timothy on from the an-animated-grub-sounds-disgusting dept.

clarkie.mg writes: "Most linux users still see the four letters LILO when booting the PC. It's now possible to have some cool graphics at boot time with the animated LILO. You can even play a game !" Be careful of the French.

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  1. Damn... but not TextMode by strredwolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Geesh... VGA mode -- which means you need some sort of support with your card (some old laptops don't).

    But how about doing it in TextMode, animating each group of characters? I think PC Tools did it with their on-screen Text-mode mouse pointer which actually looked like a mouse pointer.

    Of course, having a Penguin on the first three or so lines of my screen in text mode all the time would help too. :)

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  2. Re:Breakout suggestion: by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Uptime and availability are not the same, though. I'd rather reboot a box daily (ok, I'm not running IIS, make that monthly) and have 99.9% availability than having a machine that is never rebooted but fails a couple of percents of requests.


    Says the author of Uptimed, sigh. Nevermind, you're right, rebooting is evil. :-)

  3. hum ? by mirko · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am using the newest unstable/testing Debian :
    Here's what I get when I try to install the Breakout (201195 bytes) on my laptop :

    broomstick:~# lilo
    Fatal: /boot/breakout.boot is too big (> 65535 bytes)

    I guess "something is rotten in the realm of Denmark" ;-)

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  4. Don't Forget GRUB by ewhac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Although I've used LILO for many years, I think at this point I've pretty much converted over to the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB).

    What makes GRUB especially cool is that it doesn't need to be installed on the hard disk in order to boot systems from it. Not only can GRUB locate every hard disk in the system, not only does it understand different partitioning schemes (including BSD-style partitions), but it can also understand various filesystem structures. So if you forgot the name of that latest kernel image you wanted to test, GRUB will let you poke around the filesystem looking for it. GRUB even has a find command to do it for you.

    GRUB also supports other systems by performing the traditional read-the-first-block-from-the-partition method using the chainloader command. This lets you boot other OSes whose filesystems GRUB doesn't understand.

    Once you get past the arcane command syntax, GRUB turns out to be a wonderful tool. I recommend checking it out.

    Schwab

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  5. easier way.... by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 3, Interesting

    personally I just put a little bit of script into rc.6, so that every time i reboot it cat's the output of 'cookie' into the boot message.

    Hey Presto, new proverb every time you reboot.