[syslinux] Splash Screen

Thu Jan 27 05:00:50 PST 2011

Hello Bryan,

You can only do that with boot option : no display, no F1 key displayed, etc ... Depending of bios manufacturer.

I have set a splash screen in bios to mask displayed text during bios messages :)

Daniel.

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De : syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] De la part de Andrew Bobulsky
Envoyé : mercredi 26 janvier 2011 21:54
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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

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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
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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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