[syslinux] Menu rotation

Jane Todoroski jane.todoroski at gmail.com
Mon May 18 12:59:47 PDT 2020


I'm not a coder, I just replied to your question. As far as I know, there
is no bootloader that actually does this... maybe GRUB 2 with some UEFI
"magic"... just speculating.

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 7:18 PM Sandip Shah <sandipshah at vthrive.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> FrameBuffer has the option "fbcon=rotate:1".
>
> Could a similar functionality be implemented in the video driver (VBE?)
> that is used by Syslinux?
>
> Is it legal to copy that code from the FBCon portion into the Syslinux
> video driver portion?
>
> If so, where should I start looking?
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> SS
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:15 AM Jane Todoroski <jane.todoroski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nope, not possible as far as I know.
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 6:23 PM Sandip Shah via Syslinux <
>> syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to rotate the syslinux.cfg file that is shown on bootup?
>>> We
>>> are using Clonezilla which uses syslinux and the menu on our instrument
>>> needs to be rotated 90 degrees.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> SS
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