[syslinux] vesamenu causing screen lock-up

[H. Peter Anvin]

Teun wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have recently been playing with vesamenu.c32. It seems to work quite
> well on my hardware test machines. However, it's not really working as
> expected on VMWare-based test machines.
> (It's really nice to have a slick background image!)
> 
> As soon as i choose an option and boot a linux kernel, the menu does
> not go away.
> Instead i'm left with an unresponsive menu stuck om the screen. The
> machine does boot though, it's just not showing the console/kernel
> messages. (I know it boots because later on i can log in to it and
> everything looks normal.)

For some reason, VMware doesn't seem to reset the screen properly to 
text mode.  This is probably a VMware video BIOS bug, but I haven't had 
a chance to figure it out yet.

	-hpa