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OK, before I begin this is not a case of not reading the forums or documentation. I have trawled through various forums and the Syslinux documentation. That's not to say I haven't missed the wood for the tree's though
I recently re-installed Arch on my laptop and all is great. However, this time upon installation I opted to try Syslinux instead of Grub. So far I am really happy.
I have configured Syslinux just how it needs to be and followed the instructions to create a basic graphical menu using the 640x480 image used on the Arch Live CD. However, the menu fills my screen on boot. Although not the end of the world I would be really interested to find out the Arch Live CD centres the menu (and image) in the middle of the framebuffer on load. Stretched out it just looks a bit "wrong". No matter what I have tried (including adding the MENURESOLUTION line in the syslinuc.cfg file) it just fills the screen.
I have tried to look at the git repo that contains the Live cd config's but I can see nothing obvious. If anyone has any idea I would appreciate a pointer.
Cheers in advance.
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The relevant part of my syslinux.cfg
UI vesamenu.c32
DEFAULT ckatom
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Boot Menu
MENU RESOLUTION 640 480
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
TIMEOUT 10
MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 4
MENU ROWS 2
MENU VSHIFT 15
MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
MENU TABMSGROW 11
MENU CMDLINEROW 11
MENU HELPMSGROW 16
MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29
Note I have MENU ROWS 2 as I do not include the mem test, shutdown, or those other entries: just my normal and fallback entries.
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Trilby, Thanks for the fast response!
I compared your config settings to mine and they are almost identical.
The relevant section of my config is
DEFAULT arch
PROMPT 0 # Set to 1 if you always want to display the boot: prompt
TIMEOUT 50
# You can create syslinux keymaps with the keytab-lilo tool
#KBDMAP de.ktl
# Menu Configuration
# Either menu.c32 or vesamenu32.c32 must be copied to /boot/syslinux
#UI menu.c32
UI vesamenu.c32
MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 4
MENU ROWS 5
MENU VSHIFT 15
MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
MENU TABMSGROW 11
MENU CMDLINEROW 11
MENU HELPMSGROW 16
MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29
MENU RESOLUTION 640 480
# Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu
MENU TITLE Arch Linux
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
MENU COLOR border 30;44 #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title 1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel 7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel 37;44 #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help 37;40 #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg 31;40 #30ffffff #00000000 std
As you can see I am identical to you!
Running hwinfo --framebuffer give's me the following output:
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
[Created at bios.459]
Unique ID: rdCR.ku_DuSHewh1
Hardware Class: framebuffer
Model: "Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Controller"
Vendor: "Intel Corporation"
Device: "Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Controller"
SubVendor: "Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS"
SubDevice:
Revision: "Hardware Version 0.0"
Memory Size: 63 MB + 960 kB
Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe3feffff (rw)
Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+832), 8 bits
Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
So I can't see why it is not working!!
I have read on the Arch Wiki and in several other places that for the menu to load the image needs to be the correct size. I have used the image from the Arch Live cd git repo which is 640x480 but no matter what I try the menu "fills" my screen.
Any advice gratefully received.
Thanks
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