Cheryl Homiak said the following on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:09:59AM -0600: > One answer would be to put contrl-g in the /etc/issue file but i didn't > figure out how to do it. You can open the /etc/issue with vi and do it that way. vi /etc/issue Then from within vi esc O ^G esc ZZ > My computer already boots at the boot prompt--or actually, close enough to > it for me to manage, but the computer i'm working on doesn't, so I'm going > to try to find a way to put something like this in lilo.conf too. > But appending won't work in that case. You could try this. In my lilo.conf I have the line: message=/boot/boot_message.txt And in the file /boot/boot_message.txt I have this: ^G Welcome to the Linux boot loader! Again, with vi you can just do an actual pressing of control-g while in insert mode. Remember to run 'lilo -v' once you make changes to lilo.conf. This should work for you. Take care. -- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real good, you will get out of it. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net