On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > 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? [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: http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.html NOTE: This file is not new, it has been in /boot/ since the Red Hat Linux 5.x days at least.
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