[syslinux] vesamenu causing screen lock-up

[Teun]

Quoting Ram Yalamanchili <ramyinc at gmail.com>:

> I'm assuming you guys are talking about VMware Workstation? The ESX code
> base when you boot is the same as linux 2.4.21.

I was actually using VMWare Server (because it's free). However, if  
it's a video BIOS bug as hpa suggested it would surprise me if that  
would make a difference. I would assume all VMWare products use pretty  
much the same (video) BIOS, right?
I'm not quite sure how to interpret your comment on the ESX code.

Thanks,
Teun

> --
> Ram
>
> On 1/24/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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