Results 1 to 5 of 5
Thread: Displaying message on boot
|
Enjoy an ad free experience by logging in. Not a member yet? Register.
|
|
-
07-15-2009 #1
- Join Date
- Jul 2009
- Posts
- 7
Displaying message on boot
So this time I want to do the wipe again but I want to somehow make a message come up on the screen when they turn it on saying something like "This hdd was wiped, procede to install OS" or something like that. Is there any bootloader or bootsector trick that can display a simple message like that? without having an os or anything big installed
-
07-15-2009 #2
My answer is not exactly what you are looking for I believe. But is that system a dual boot with windows? In that case just formatting linux partition (if that is really what you want) and fixing windows bootloader won't do?
A candle looses nothing by lighting other candles. - Khalil Zibran.
Registered Linux User #490076
-
07-15-2009 #3
- Join Date
- Mar 2009
- Posts
- 228
Why not just do a minimal install of Ubuntu after wiping the disk so it'll boot but there won't be anything there.
-
07-16-2009 #4
- Join Date
- Jul 2009
- Posts
- 7
Well no it is not a dual boot, and yes I could just install SOMETHING on there so it boots up, but that's not the cool way to do it hehe. It has to be slick, hdd wiped except for a simple message explaining what happened.
Over night I thought about it and I might just make a ~5MB partition with grub on it, and in my menu.lst I will put something in there for the title and have a very long pause before auto booting.
But just for future reference, anyone have another good idea? some trick to make it happen?
-
07-16-2009 #5
well i think it can be done but not sure how, instead of the name of the operating system we can simply show your message that this doesn't contain any OS. But you will need to have a partition on HDD as grub needs file to read from the partitons. The lilo boot loader would do the trick here as the FSBL is installed in the boot sector of MBR and changing the lable to "NO OS" in lilo.conf might work what say?
Only if I could understand the man pages
Registered Linux user #492640
OS: RHEL4,5 ,RH 9,Ubuntu