Hi,
[ for those not having read previous threads about it: for quite a long time included in debian already, syslinux version 3.74 includes a gfxboot interface plugin, which allows using a more intuitive interface in bootscreens of syslinux payloads (isolinux, pxelinux, etc.), as well as with grub and lilo. in order to make it possible to use the gfxboot menu structure in debians live and installation media, a few things are left to be done. ] I've packaged and uploaded the userland tools (gfxboot[0]) and upstreams 'sample' themes (gfxboot-themes[1]) to unstable, they will hit the archive after the usual NEW delay. In the meanwhile, those packages can be downloaded from the maintainers site[2]. This is the newest upstream version of gfxboot, 4.1.19, obsoleting both ubuntus very outdated gfxboot version 3.3.39 and their hacked syslinux version 3.63. gfxboot-theme-ubuntu needs a small patch (attached) to adjust to the renaming of the userland executables. I've tested it successfully with debians syslinux version 3.82+dfsg-4. Note that the syslinux config file needs a change in syntax as well: With the hacked syslinux version, one had in the config file a line like this: gfxboot bootlogo With the gfxboot com32 module, this has to be changed to: ui gfxboot bootlogo There might be a limitation in syslinux 3.82 that requires to *not* use include statments within the syslinux config file, meaning that e.g. isolinux.cfg is a monolithic configuration file. I have not yet verified that aspect myself, but on the bright side, others are claiming that this has been fixed within the syslinux 4.0~pre series. If the limitation turns out to be true, this is very unfortunate. Not exactely knowing the ETA for a syslinux 4 final release, I might look into backporting that fix for 3.82 instead of waiting for the 4 release, so that we can keep using modularized syslinux configs for squeeze just like we did in lenny. What's left? I'll look into creating a gfxboot-theme-debian using a newer version of the bootsplash graphic redesigned[3] by pixelgirl. When there's something to show off, I'll post again an update so others can express their opinions. Once we have a menu working and in the archive, live-helper will be updated to be using gfxboot by default for sid and squeeze images. I guess, debian-cd maintainers will most likely do something similar with debian-cd at some point. Regards, Daniel [0] http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=syslinux/gfxboot.git [1] http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=syslinux/gfxboot-themes.git [2] http://archive.debian-maintainers.org/syslinux/packages/gfxboot/ http://archive.debian-maintainers.org/syslinux/packages/gfxboot-themes/ [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/07/msg00211.html -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/
diff -Naurp gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/Makefile gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/Makefile --- gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/Makefile 2008-04-16 12:34:50.000000000 +0000 +++ gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/Makefile 2009-09-03 19:43:20.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ifneq ($(BINDIR),) BINDIR := $(BINDIR)/ else -BINDIR := $(dir $(firstword $(wildcard /usr/bin/mkbootmsg) $(wildcard ../../mkbootmsg))) +BINDIR := $(dir $(firstword $(wildcard /usr/bin/gfxboot) $(wildcard ../../gfxboot))) endif ifneq ($(PRIVBINDIR),) PRIVBINDIR := $(PRIVBINDIR)/ @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ else PRIVBINDIR := $(dir $(firstword $(wildcard /usr/share/gfxboot/bin/keymapchars) $(wildcard ../../keymapchars))) endif -MKBOOTMSG = $(BINDIR)mkbootmsg +MKBOOTMSG = $(BINDIR)gfxboot-compile KEYMAPCHARS = $(PRIVBINDIR)keymapchars BFLAGS = -O -v -L ../.. INCLUDES = $(wildcard *.inc) diff -Naurp gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/debian/changelog gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/debian/changelog --- gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/debian/changelog 2009-08-27 10:22:29.000000000 +0000 +++ gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/debian/changelog 2009-09-03 19:47:26.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Updating executable names of gfxboot utilities in Makefile to work + with gfxboot version 4.1.19. + + -- Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:23:06 +0200 + gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.8.3) karmic; urgency=low * Add localisation for "Install Ubuntu ^Enterprise Cloud". diff -Naurp gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/debian/control gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/debian/control --- gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.orig/debian/control 2009-08-10 20:32:12.000000000 +0000 +++ gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/debian/control 2009-09-03 19:47:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), gfxboot (>= 3.3.28) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), gfxboot (>= 4.1.19) Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/mainline
