[syslinux] vesamenu fullscreen efi boot

Aaron McSorley a at aaronmcsorley.com
Fri Jan 17 08:38:56 PST 2014


The behavior with efi boot is different than with bios boot, with bios
boot a 640x480 image fills the screen, but, with efi boot the image is
tiled regardless of whether I use MENU RESOLUTION 640 480

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is for a USB boot image where I won't have advance knowledge of
>> the different screen resolutions it boots on
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Aaron McSorley <a at aaronmcsorley.com> wrote:
>> >> When I boot to efi my splash screen is tiled, how do I make it not
>> >> tile?  Optimally I'd like it to expand the image to the size of the
>> >> screen, is that possible?
>> >
>> > To my knowledge, there is no stretch functionality.  Your best bet is
>> > to match your image size to the screen size.
>> >
>> > --
>> > -Gene
>
> AFAIK, the default resolution for vesamenu.c32 is 640 x 480.
>
> You should either:
> _ use a "splash" file of *that* resolution; or,
> _ use the 'MENU RESOLUTION' directive.
>
> For instance, if your "splash" background is 800 x 600, then you
> would use:
> MENU RESOLUTION 800 600
>
> and all potential screens where you want to boot with this "splash"
> should support the desired screen resolution.
>
> Regards,
> Ady.
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