UI considerations with gfxboot

[daniele favara]

On 12/19/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:04:56PM +0100, daniele favara wrote:
> >> i see that suse isolinux can load jpg images as background but you use
> a
> > >syslinux image ... isn't syslinux from dupper patched for that ?
>
> >I don't understand you. Can you please elaborate?
>
>
from what i see in last dapper cdrom you don't use a jpg as  background
image but

   splash.rle: Syslinux SLL16 image data, 639 x 320

or

  splash.pcx: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [639, 479],
8-bit colour, 72 x 72 dpi, RLE compressed

(i suppose the last one true ?)

since v 9.3 of SUSE, syslinux supports jpg images, for ex back.jpg:

from common.inc:
--
"back.jpg" findfile /background.file over def setimage loadpalette
--

and even a splash image (greetings.jpg + splash.jpg) if you use the init
generated from install and not from boot.

i'm using SUSE isolinux and i think there is a really nice feature that i
didn't see in dapper:

help menu.

it's even "multi-lang" .. when you change the lang the carrispondent help
menu can be loaded, but i needed to switch to non-graph syslinux to access
that menu.


when i discovered that dapper was using the patched syslinux i tried to make
a bootable iso using its isolinux.bin and the old tree i was using:

16x16.fnt
back.jpg
dots.jpg
en.hlp
en.tr
greeting.jpg
head_a.jpg
init
initramfs.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
it.tr
lang
languages
log
splash.jpg
vmlinuz


but it seems it doesn't work ....

i'm really interested on having this syslinux on dapper with the same
features that has the SUSE one ...



Daniele Favara (nomed)
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