[syslinux] Splash Screen

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Hello Bryan,

You might be able to pull something like this off via the vesamenu.c32 or
gfxboot modules, but I can't say that for certain.

The limitation you *will* have, however, is that SYSLINUX can't control the
contents of the screen until the BIOS loads it.  In other words, you'll see
any splash screens generated by the BIOS and option ROMs in the machine
first (e.g. "Award BIOS.  Copyright stuff, 'Oh look it's a floppy drive,'"
and so on, followed by a RAID or LAN/PXE ROM, etc.), *then* your bootloader
will get its control to do as you wish.

If you really want to mask the entire thing from the BIOS side of it, Intel
LOM NICs usually let you configure the option rom notice to 0 seconds (I
think) and many BIOSes allow you to "cover up" the hardware detection phase
and then also turn off the detailed summary that follows it (where it lists
PCI devices and IRQ reservations).

If that's something that will work for your scenario, then you might want to
look into a "hidden" boot phase from your bootloader.  Never tried something
like that myself though... I always like to see the diagnostic messages
myself ;)

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Bryan.James.Krone-EXT at jci.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:47 PM
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: [syslinux] Splash Screen

Is there a way to show only a splash screen during the boot up, like not
even the BIOS text? I would like to make a kiosk  with no indication of what
is running.

Thanks,

Bryan

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