On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:24 +0800, Bean wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It turned out that the splash image called isolinux/splash.jpg is > > actually a png file. What's worse, GRUB won't use it because it's not > > 8-bit: > > > > $ identify splash.jpg > > splash.jpg PNG 640x480 640x480+0+0 DirectClass 16-bit 436.441kb > > It's quite easy to support 16-bit png, but i don't have one to test. > would you please send the image to me ?
http://red-bean.com/proski/splash.png > > Once I had Fedora 9 installed, I tried to install the latest GRUB on > > it. But I would get a strange message: "Warning: syntax error > > (missing slash) in `'" > > > > It turned out that grub_parse_color_name_pair() was called from > > normal/menu.c, which didn't know a prototype for that function. Even > > though NULL was passed as the "name" argument, > > grub_parse_color_name_pair() would see some non-zero value. Adding > > the declaration to normal.h fixed the problem. > > I think this is caused by compile optimization. grub use -mregparm=3 > option, which means use register instead of stack to pass parameter. > When caller encounter a function without prototype, it use the c > calling convention, which conflict with callee. But i think gcc is not > to be blame here, because it just have no way to know better, we could > be calling a function in the c library, in which case, the standard > calling convention is the correct one. That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. By the way, the fix for GRUB hanging when booting from a CD is not making any difference on the system where I discovered it initially. I need to look deeper. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
