[syslinux] isolinux problem: recent kernel versions vs. old hardware

William Thompson wt at electro-mechanical.com
Wed Feb 13 11:04:08 PST 2008


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:48:28AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> vesamenu is expected to fall back to text mode (but still display the 
> text-mode menu) on systems which lack VESA 2.0 or an FPU - which pretty 
> much means a 486SX or something from that era.

FYI: I've noticed that vesamenu falls back to text mode on some more recent
machines.

Several Dell PCs (Off the top of my head, the dimension L series, ie L866r
and optiplex gx50 IIRC) do not show the graphics.




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