[syslinux] not sure how to get rid of white screen during boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 12:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 3.86 is way old.
> 
> Everything I wrote below is unchanged with syslinux-4.02-3.el6.i686
> which I pulled from fedora-14.  Maybe in those 4 seconds syslinux is
> still in play uncompressing kernel/initrd(?) or something else, but
> either way, I may take a look at what it takes to fade the menu-text
> and/or splash-image out as soon as the selection is made.  (and both
> with an optional and probably timelength tunable fade in as well).
> 
> /me likes the fades...
> 

No, the white screen is after the kernel starts running usually...


	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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