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4 Adjust the path entries in boot/grub/menu.lst to make them point to a
5 Create the ISO image with the following command:
6 Write the resulting file grub.iso to a CD using your preferred utility. Do not

10.5 The Graphical SUSE Screen

The graphical SUSE screen is displayed on the first console if the option vga=value
is used as a kernel parameter. If you install using YaST, this option is automatically
activated in accordance with the selected resolution and the graphics card. There are
three ways to disable the SUSE screen, if desired:
Disabling the SUSE Screen When Necessary
Enter the command echo 0 >/proc/splash on the command line to disable
the graphical screen. To activate it again, enter echo 1 >/proc/splash.
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CD-ROM device. Do this by replacing the device name of the hard disks, listed
in the format (hdx,y), in the pathnames with (cd), the device name of the
CD-ROM drive. You may also need to adjust the paths to the message file, the
kernel and the initrd—they need to point to /boot/message, /boot/
vmlinuz and /boot/initrd, respectively. After having made the adjust-
ments, menu.lst should look similar to the following example:
timeout 8
default 0
gfxmenu (cd)/boot/message
title Linux
root (cd)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=794 resume=/dev/sda1 \
splash=verbose showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
Use splash=silent instead of splash=verbose to prevent the boot
messages from appearing during the boot procedure.
genisoimage -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -iso-level 2 -input-charset utf-8 \
-o grub.iso /tmp/iso
burn the ISO image as a data file, but use the option for burning a CD image in
your burning utility.