2007/9/26, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Tim: > >> If it's on both drives, and the same partition number, it shouldn't > >> matter. It ought to work either way, it'd just use whichever drive it > >> thought was hd0 at that time. Alternative, you can comment it out and > >> just have a textual screen. > > > Mikkel L. Ellertson: > > In this case, the OP only has windows on the laptop drive, so > > changing the settings or disabling the splash screen are the only > > options. He was booting from a boot CD, so the USB drive was the > > second BIOS drive. But the new laptop can boot from a USB drive, and > > the USB drive is the first BIOS drive when you do that. It makes > > things interesting when doing the install. > > Though the splash screen graphics is in the boot location, along with > the kernel (albeit in a sub-directory, but that doesn't have to be the > case). Where ever you're getting the boot kernel from, you ought to be > able to get the graphics, too. That lends itself to other interesting > posibilities, like different graphics depending on where you boot from. > You can customise it to your heart's content. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386 > > Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Tim&Mikkel tnx for help. At the moment I have to suspend my work, as this morning, when I booted the pc from my USB disk, it didn't recognize only the /boot partition: the same when I connected the same USB disk to another PC. I hope to recover the situation this evening at home, by the Fedora DVD running an installation. -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
