Re: Issues with GRUB-gfxboot

[chaac]

J. Silverman wrote:
> Hi Pete and Vesa,
>
> Thank you both for your help! Pete, some of the other developers and I 
> were thinking there was something wrong with vmware, like you said.  
> Someone is going to try out installing SuSE (where the gfxboot menu 
> originated) and see if its menu works, just to make sure something 
> didn't happen when the Debian GRUB was patched.
>
> Vesa, if it is something wrong with the code, where would we begin to 
> check.  I'm not an expert at GRUB, so I am not really sure where and how 
> to fix it if it is a coding issue.

Hi,

Official GRUB distribution doesn't contain code to display graphical 
menus, so this is stricly unoffical patch you are using with it. If you 
can point me to comple source archive I could have some time to look at 
it and verify some details about it.

Basicly most common problem was that coders were too lazy to read (or 
didn't just read) VBE standard and missed some details about virtual 
screen buffer scanline length value in returned video mode settings. 
There are also other video settings to look for compatibility, but this 
was usually main issue at codes I were looking at that time.

I think my workmate has RH9 running under VMware and it also features 
graphical boot. But I think that is prepatched RedHat version of GRUB.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen