On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx > From: Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: New /boot/message file? > > 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. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos