similar to: Do you care about fancier splash screens in SYSLINUX?

I've been creating bootable Linux CDs for some time, and something I've consistently found is: on certain systems the splash screen won't display when I use isolinux. All I get is white, empty space where the splash would ordinarily go. Text included under the splash screen appears as it should, but the image itself doesn't. I've experimented with different resolutions of

CentOS 5.0 x86. Is there any easy, point and click way, to install GNOME splash screens?

This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor documentation changes. Changes in 3.54: * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled" (see README.menu). * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode when Cirrus

I tracked down the source of the "invalid kernel image" in 1.73 -- it turns out that in two different places I was accessing word-sized variables as dwords :( Consequently, SYSLINUX would reject valid kernels. PXELINUX/ISOLINUX are unaffected. Thus, SYSLINUX 1.74 is out. Expect a 1.75-pre1 quite soon. I'm working on a rewrite using 32-bit code from the very beginning, which

Hello! There is a floppy image from 2003 for testing video cards at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/vesatest/ If you are still interested, I will do some tests.. Alex

The following code can be used to convert a 256 color BMP to LSS format for use as a SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX/PXELINUX Splash screen. The bitmap must be LESS than 640 pixels wide (bug) and only uses the first 16 colors. CorelDraw and PhotoShop are good for re-palletizing and dithering. Paul Shebanow pshebanow at iqcorp.com --- Begin Code --- Type RGBColor4 cBlue As Byte cGreen As Byte

It's pretty much the same as 2.08-pre11. 2.08 mostly a collection of minor enhancements. Changes in 2.08: * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout to have a different action than just pressing Enter. * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom command to be executed in case the kernel image is not

Greetings, I have released SYSLINUX 2.05. It is almost identical to 2.05-pre4. I'm about to leave for a trip, so if there are any issues please let me know, but don't expect a response any time soon. -hpa 2.05 is mostly a bug fix/maintenance release. Changes in 2.05: * PXELINUX: Add a default query based on the hardware address of the boot device. This is in lower

Hello everyone, I have just released SYSLINUX 3.70, which is the first version which includes gPXE for support of non-TFTP network scripts, as well as a large number of other enhancments. gPXE support is still somewhat experimental - in particular it still doesn't support chaining other NBPs. Very special thanks to: - rPath, Inc, my employer, for the uncountable hours I've spent

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

Thanks for responses. I use GRUB as my bootloader in my hard disk now. I have a Windows in sda1, Ubuntu in sda3. If I want to install extlinux to boot Ubuntu, should I follow the steps below? 1. in Ubuntu, go to extlinux folder, run command ./extlinux --install /boot 2. create an extlinux.conf in/boot 3. cd ../mbr 4. cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda (or use dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda bs=404 count=1)

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.11. It's basically -pre3 with a few last-minute fixes. 2.11: Bug fix release. Changes in 2.11: * ALL: Add an API call to get the configuration file name. * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in 2.10 that prevented it from working correctly for a lot of people. * SYSLINUX: In the installer, make mtools a bit less fussy. * Make

2.12: Add a C runtime library for writing COM32 applications; minor improvements. Changes in 2.12: * Simple C library, based on klibc, for writing COM32 programs. * Fix the handling of file length in loading of COM32 programs. * MEMDISK: Work around a linker bug by rearranging the code to not use the linker for the 16-bit code.

It's basically the same as 2.13-pre1 but with some makefile and specfile cleanups. For the RPM package, there is now a separate RPM with the com32 build environment. 2.13: Bug fixes for the 2.12 release. 2.12: Add a C runtime library for writing COM32 applications; minor improvements. Changes in 2.13: * MEMDISK: Fix command-line parsing "brown paper bag" class

Since I've gotten convinced the really serious PXELINUX/ISOLINUX bug in 1.71 got squashed, I have released 1.72. Again, 1.72 is a bug fix release only. I have some additional rewrites pending before I want to introduce features that use the new core code, but let's make sure it gets usable again, first... -hpa SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a

I have released SYSLINUX 1.71 after fixing the total "brown-paper-bag" class bug in 1.70. My best guess is that I checked in the wrong verson of some code. -hpa SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a major rewrite of some of the internals. It also includes some bug fixes. SYSLINUX 1.71 is a bug fix to 1.70. Changes in 1.71: * Fix a

Changes in 3.11: * MEMDISK: Fix bug by which accessing the real floppy disk as B: in MS-DOS was broken. * Simple menu system: allow tweaking of the screen layout. * Simple menu system: better command-line editing, correctly handle command lines above 256 characters. * PXELINUX: revert memory allocation change that caused problems

This release is identical to 1.67-pre1. Unfortunately the people who reported problems with 1.66 never got back to me to indicate if it solved their problem or not, but since it fixes a real bug, regardless, I decided to release it as 1.67. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ -hpa 1.67 is a trivial bug fix release affecting a fairly small number of systems. 1.66 is an

SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a major rewrite of some of the internals. It also includes some bug fixes. Changes in 1.70: * Major code restructuring. * Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat. * MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the header correctly. * SYSLINUX: Fix, again,

I have released SYSLINUX 2.04, mostly to address the 2.03 MEMDISK bug. At the same time I'm getting the PXELINUX blksize and SYSLINUX installer changes out there, which hopefully is a good thing. New release mostly to address the MEMDISK corruption issue. Changes in 2.04: * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine,