[syslinux] maximum resolution

Andrey Vul andrey.vul at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 04:05:01 PST 2006


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Not that it switches resolution, what's the hardcoded maximium line
length (rows x cols)? is it 80x25?

Nazo wrote:
| On 1/11/06, Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> wrote:
|
|>On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:20:02PM -0500, Andrey Vul wrote:
|>
|>>in isolinux, what's the maximimum text resolution (how many characters
|>>per screen)?
|>>i need to expand the f2 file and i don't know if the limit's been reached
|>
|>I never knew ISOLinux does switch text resolution. Neither didn't known
|>that it can have different resolutions on different screens.
|>
|>
|>Geert Stappers
|>(missing the context of the original question)
|>
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|
| Andrey is asking due to the fact that it can use images.
| Unfortunately, Syslinux is unable to change resolutions as you
| suspected.  In fact, what it actually does is use the default
| 640x480x4 that is set by the VGA bios (so don't go setting it to EGA
| or you may get troubles.)  The easiest solution for when you run out
| of room on the F2 page is to make an F3 page.  Of course, you can
| always create a module (I'm thinking complex menu would be a start)
| and you could maybe do a bit using that, and, you can also boot
| another bootloader like lilo (which seems to be able to support VESA,
| though I don't really know how it does it since the only times I use
| lilo are when an installer sets it up for me.)
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