[Fedora-livecd-list] Why does my LiveCD look ugly?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Dec 12 21:08:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:02 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> I am building a RHEL5 live DVD on an F8 box. I have noticed that my DVD 
> looks ugly when the boot while the F8 live cds look good with their 
> splash screen. Digging through the archives, I had an rpm drop a image 
> which I want to use at boot time, and the %post section copies this to 
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/syslinux-vesa-splash.jpg. However, I still get 
> a TUI (curses) menu where I have to select what to boot. The timer does 
> not appear to run, so they have to select it. I have based my DVD on the 
> fedora-7 kickstart files.. only removing syslinux and kernel from the 
> package list.
> 
> Is there any voodoo to get the bootup looking better?

The version of syslinux in RHEL5 doesn't have the vesa graphics support

Jeremy




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