From 710dea0bae3979d084021c910af3f53388e72603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:50:35 +0100 Subject: BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience. - generate the grub fonts (.pf2) ourselves instead of using the Slackware-provided grub font file. - expand the help text about the boot parameters. - show the liveslak version number in the boot menu. - remove the 'boot any OS' menu item in Grub because it never worked for me. - add a bit of Grub help text at the bottom of the screen. NOTES: - I do not like the way how I had to implement the Grub2 help menu, it is ugly. Perhaps the text artefacts and understrikes are caused by the fact that the grub console has to paint on top of the graphical boot menu? - In any case, the grub console (the black rectangle in the middle) has its coordinates hard-coded in the grub2 source so it is not configurable. - the grub fonts look better than in Beta3 but I am still not happy with them. Research on Grub boot menu enhancements done by Didier Spaier. --- syslinux/f4.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 syslinux/f4.txt (limited to 'syslinux/f4.txt') diff --git a/syslinux/f4.txt b/syslinux/f4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d27e29 --- /dev/null +++ b/syslinux/f4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +== Tweaks for the boot commandline == + +=== Hardware related === + +nomodeset => Boot without kernel mode setting, needed with + some machines. + +rootdelay=10 => Add 10 second delay to give the kernel more + time to initialize USB. Try this if booting fails. + +swap => Allow the Live OS to activate all swap partitions on + on the local hardware. By default, none is touched. + +=== Troubleshooting === + +debug => During init, pause at specifiuc locations while as- + sembling the overlay filesystem and show mount information. + +rescue => After initialization, you will be dropped in a + rescue shell to perform lowlevel maintenance. + +== [F1]: Home [F2]: Desktop setup [F3]: Media tweaks == -- cgit v1.2.3