When booting, I used to get a screen with the SLACKWARE banner across the top and a count-down timer counting down from the lilo.conf timeout setting. Lately, I just see "lilo 24.2 boot:" and that stays on-screen for probably the same timeout limit before booting.

I don't know when that changed, possibly when I upgraded to 15.0. Is there a setting for that? I don't believe I changed anything in lilo.conf. I liked the logo, and I like seeing the timer count down.

I believe if memory serves me correctly that the count down timer is in /etc/lilo.conf around line 38. timeout = 1200 (or your preference)

And line 15 for a bmp Boot Image

In your /etc/lilo.conf you should have lines looking something like this:

Do you have those lines in your /etc/lilo.conf? Is the file pointed to by the bitmap line in place? Is that file a valid bmp file?

regards Henrik

That could possibly explain it. Some systems I have still using lilo show the /boot/slack.bmp banner, but the one now using elilo/UEFI do not. However, the system referenced in my post shows: "lilo 24.2 boot:", not "elilo ...", so that one NOT showing the banner is still lilo. I'll see if I can track down which host that is and check the /boot/slack.bmp config.

Relatedly, is there no equivalent for the elilo/UEFI boot? There is no on-screen countdown. The screen just sits there at "elilo xx.x boot:" until the timeout expires.

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I have never had that bitmap= in lilo.conf but maybe the penguins on the boot screen are similar? If you have vga = normal, there are no penguins. vga = <some vesa code> gives a VESA framebuffer console with penguins.

The conclusion seems to be that lilo.conf can do the bitmap thing and also has the boot wait timer countdown. elilo does not.

I don't care all that much about the bitmap, but is there no way of showing a boot countdown timer with elilo[.conf]? That was useful, IMO.

should do the trick, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/files/elilo/