[syslinux] isolinux bootsplash

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On 11/15/05, Davide Marchi <danjde at msw.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Well, the bootsplash is handled by the kernel not by syslinux.  What
> >>you can do is add the splash statement to the appended options for
> >>your linux kernel, and if it has another bootsplash built in it will
> >>use whatever you tell it.  In most linux versions "splash=verbose" (no
> >>quotes of course) does the trick though I seem to recall there was one
> >>where I had to use "splash=0" (might have been gentoo's prebuilt
> >>kernels I think.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> yes! (i know)
> but when i try to start the same kernel and the same initrd from grub,
> the bootsplash run well
> ..if i try to run from iso (isolinux) nothing happen: no framebuffer and
> no splash verbose or silent
>
> cat /proc/splash
> Splash screen v3.1.4-2004/02/19 (0xf0, 1024x768): off
>
> here my isolinux.cfg "append":
>
> LABEL  cosmogonia
> KERNEL vmlinuz2613
> APPEND lang=it vga=0x303 ramdisk_size=8004 initrd=initrd2613.img
> root=/dev/ram init=/linuxrc rw initargs=cdrom-2.6 sysharddisktype=tmpfs
> vga=788 splash=verbose quiet
>
> mmmhh..
>
> --
> cosmogonia <http://www.cosmogonia.org/>
> noprovarenofareononfarenonc'èprovare
>
>

I may be mistaken, but, I believe I've read that the bootsplash
requires 16-bit or higher.  Try booting with vga=0x311 and see if that
works.