Making yaboot pretty

Javier Montoya filtertrap at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 26 19:12:26 MST 2005


I was wondering how I could possibly make the font on
the boot loader larger or even put ascii art on the
loader screen as with the freebsd boot loader.

I'll just settle with larger font on my bootloader.
Where are the x and l key strings??


My plain Jane yaboot.conf

# yaboot.conf generated by anaconda

boot=/dev/hda2
init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux! Hit <TAB>
for boot options."
partition=6
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
delay=10
enablecdboot
macosx=/dev/hda3

image=/vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7
 label=linux
 read-only
 initrd=/initrd-2.6.8-1.ydl.7.img
 root=/dev/hda4
 append="rhgb quiet"




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