Dear all, I have recently been playing with vesamenu.c32. It seems to work quite well on my hardware test machines. However, it's not really working as expected on VMWare-based test machines. (It's really nice to have a slick background image!) As soon as i choose an option and boot a linux kernel, the menu does not go away. Instead i'm left with an unresponsive menu stuck om the screen. The machine does boot though, it's just not showing the console/kernel messages. (I know it boots because later on i can log in to it and everything looks normal.) I've been fiddling with the code to try and force the screen back in to text mode. No luck yet though. (Not sure if this even is the problem/related.) Any thoughts on what might be wrong here? If any further info is needed please ask me... Thanks, Teun
Teun wrote:> Dear all, > > I have recently been playing with vesamenu.c32. It seems to work quite > well on my hardware test machines. However, it's not really working as > expected on VMWare-based test machines. > (It's really nice to have a slick background image!) > > As soon as i choose an option and boot a linux kernel, the menu does > not go away. > Instead i'm left with an unresponsive menu stuck om the screen. The > machine does boot though, it's just not showing the console/kernel > messages. (I know it boots because later on i can log in to it and > everything looks normal.)For some reason, VMware doesn't seem to reset the screen properly to text mode. This is probably a VMware video BIOS bug, but I haven't had a chance to figure it out yet. -hpa
On 2/2/07, Ryan McLean <ryanm at accelrys.com> wrote:> > VMWare player allows for the playing of VMs created by someone else but > not the creation of them > > >This can be worked around with http://easyvmx.com/. You can create and edit a vmware image and install the OS of choice into it. A Google search will yeild installation HOWTOs. Keith