[syslinux] isolinux bootsplash

[Steffen Winterfeldt]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Nazo wrote:

> On 11/15/05, Nazo <nazosan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/15/05, Davide Marchi <danjde at msw.it> wrote:

> > > 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

[...]

> > > 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

[...]

> > 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.

No, it's the boot loader not the kernel that looks at the 'vga' statement.
But isolinux uses the last and grub (for whatever reason) picks the first
one. So your line above works differently in grub and isolinux.

And yes, a 16 bit mode is required.


Steffen