[syslinux] isolinux problem: recent kernel versions vs. old hardware
William Thompson
wt at electro-mechanical.com
Wed Feb 13 12:55:09 PST 2008
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:56:23AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> William Thompson wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Could you run "vesainfo.c32" on those machines and let me know what it
> prints?
Sure.
I've attached the image. I didn't want to type all that (nor make mistakes
in doing so)
The machine is a Dell Dimension L866r. I just upgraded my syslinux to 3.61
(from debian sid)
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