Re: Issues with GRUB-gfxboot

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Sunday 21 March 2004 16:26, J. Silverman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to ask, but maybe
> some of you might know the answer to this question. Anyway, here is
> the issue I am having. I have installed GRUB-gfxboot to a livecd of
> Morphix (www.morphix.org) from this site :
> http://neverborn.org/code.html .  I have got it working perfectly
> fine on real pcs; however if you try it on VMware, the graphical
> menu will either not come up, or will be distorted.  I have a
> screenshot of it at:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/g1powermac/index.htm
> (labeled VMware screenshot)
>
> If anyone has any reason why the GRUB-gfxboot menu is acting this
> way on VMware, that would be great.

IIRC, VMware is missing some VGA BIOS functions, or get it wrong as in 
your case. You can try to complain to them. A bug, I reported 4 years
ago, was fixed lately (getting serial mode 7e2 wrong)...

Good luck,
Pete