FW: [syslinux] graphich bootscreen howto ???

[Sylvain]

Hi !

In fact, LPP is not anymore maintained by the original developper,
since he doesn't use it himself, but people from debian, mandrake, or other distrib
(don't remember which one exactly) maintain lpp.
LPP already existed for 2.2.x kernels, so you should be able to find patchs for you kernel,
or update your kernel.
When using LPP, you have to append to kernel command line somethink like CONSOLE=/dev/tty2
so that printk doesn't wipe out the vesa displayed image.
You may also have a look at the fblogo project (found on freshmeat )

regards,

sylvain

Le Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:01:42 +0200 
Ole Hansen <ole at danelec.dk> a écrit:

> Hello sylvian
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I use kernel 2.4.3 so far, and the Linux Progress Patch seems to start at
> 2.4.13....
> 
> What I don't understand is, why the kernel whipes out the VGA-display, as
> both Syslinux and
> the kernel is setup for serial-console.
> 
> best regards
> 
> ole at danelec.dk
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvain [mailto:asm8 at wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: 6. april 2003 14:49
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] graphich bootscreen howto ???
> 
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I think the image is displayed until the kernel begin its work.
> You set the PROMPT option, so syslynux wait TIMEOUT 1/10s , and then
> boot the kernel.
> So that's why you see you image during 2/10 seconds.
> 
> If you want to display an image while the kernel boot, maybe you should
> look at the Linux Progress Patch.
> You may also set the TIMEOUT to a bigger value, but i'm not sure that's
> what you want.
> 
> regards,
> 
> sylvain
> 
> Le Sun, 6 Apr 2003 13:13:57 +0200 
> Ole Hansen <ole at danelec.dk> a écrit:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I am trying to get a graphical-image(lss16) to be displayed during the
> > booting of kernel and filesystem.
> > I have my console redirected to COM1 (SERIAL 0 9600):
> > 
> > syslinux.cfg:
> > 
> > default linux
> > prompt 1
> > timeout 20
> > 
> > SERIAL 0 9600
> > 
> > display boot.msg
> > 
> > label linux
> >   kernel linux
> >   append root=/dev/nfs rw mem=192M initrd=vr5000.tgz
> > 
> > The image is displayed a very short time, and then the screen i cleared
> and
> > the following the following is shown on VGA-display:
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux...  Ok, booting the kernel.
> > 
> > This is then shown on serial port:
> > 
> > boot: 
> > Loading linux...............
> > Loading vr5000.tgz...
> > Ready.
> > Linux version 2.4.3 (root at linfvdrdev) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
> > (release)) #63 Wed Dec 18 11:44:08 CET 2002
> > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> >  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> > 
> > and the normal boot-information........
> > 
> > How di I make the image stay displayed during whole boot or until
> something
> > else is using the VGA-display ???
> > 
> > 
> > best regards
> > 
> > ole at danelec.dk
> > 
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> > 
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