[syslinux] Splash screen problem

Jonathan Lyster info at jslyster.com
Sun Feb 20 08:49:36 PST 2005


I've been creating bootable Linux CDs for some time, and something I've 
consistently found is: on certain systems the splash screen won't display 
when I use isolinux. All I get is white, empty space where the splash would 
ordinarily go. Text included under the splash screen appears as it should, 
but the image itself doesn't.

I've experimented with different resolutions of splash screens, and nothing 
makes a difference.

In fact I went so far as to take the splash screen from Knoppix (which 
displays fine on the systems I've found which have trouble with my own 
splashes) and incorporated it into one of my own boot CDs using isolinux. The 
same problem appears: empty white space.

Knoppix uses a floppy emulation, while I'm using no emulation.

Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a fix for it?

Some background:

- I'm using syslinux 3.07.
- The systems I've used which have this problem are two machines using AMD 
Duron processors and 1 Twinhead laptop using a Centrino.
- All of these machines only have trouble displaying graphics when booting 
from isolinux.


Regards;
   Jonathan Lyster




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