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

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hmm strange....

in mandrake 8.2 they seem to have left this out :-(....

bw
miriam

On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:55:59 -0400
Tabatha Persad <tabatha3 at attbi.com> wrote:

> 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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