[syslinux] isolinux bootsplash

[Nazo]

On 11/15/05, Nazo <nazosan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Oops, I'm sorry.  I just noticed that you have two vga statements. 
The 788 is the same thing as 0x311.  However, the kernel probably
takes the first argument and ignores the second, so it's using 8-bit
mode instead of 16-bit like you want.  So just remove the first
statement and you should be ok.