[Techtalk] Getting rid of Aurora (was why is my kernel so big???)

[Tabatha Persad]

Hey there,

I've had this issue on many an occasion.... the icky Aurora screen.

Open up your Mandrake Control Center, open up Boot... this will give you 3 
options. Boot Disk, Boot Config and Auto Install.  Choose Boot Config and 
there's a handy dandy little button to turn off Aurora on startup!

If you unselect it, log off, and restart, you will get the standard text boot.

Hope that takes care of it for you!

Tabatha


On Friday 10 May 2002 14:10, Dave North wrote:
> > The initial lilo screen is a lilo.conf option.
>
> Thanks, but not the problem as I pointed out before. In fact, I had
> that disabled before first boot.
>
> > For the other happy purple nonsense that gets thrown up instead of the
> > system output,
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep Aurora
>
> Sounded like a good idea so I did it. Result? Zip!
> 	So I ran a "locate urora" and came up with some driver module
> software in both kernel source directories (Mandrake's and standard
> 2.4.18) but no .o files or any rpm package with urora in it (just being
> careful about the cap A, which appears to be correct, by the way).
> 	The only thing with the cap A is a Aurora.xpm, which is doubtless
> the playskool screen.
> 	So I fished around in the control center, but no obvious mention
> of how to turn this off.
>
> > But it won't hurt anything to get rid of it.  The init scripts go looking
> > for it, and if it's not there they act like normal.
>
> Hmm. Maybe I can find that script and kill it. Hold on.
> 	Nothing obvious, but a lot of cruft in /etc/rc.d/rc so I blew it
> out. Nope. No luck.
> 	But wait, if I kill the "quiet" kernel directive, all that crud
> goes away!
> 	Hmm. At this point I'd have to guess "quiet" also triggers
> something that displays the "aurora" screen (there are a lot of
> workarounds in rc.d/rc to fix bustage in aurora; I wonder why they think
> this silly screen is so important?). Anyway, it all goes away at that
> point, and there's even an optional lilo listing for a kernel started that
> way.
> 	How demented!
> 	Curiouser and curiouser.
>
>
> d
>
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