netboot/grub and Redhat 7.2

[Joel Sherrill]

Chris Caudle wrote:
> 
> > And .. since grub is in RH 7.2 has anyone used the
> > grub with the OS to build an RTEMS bootable floppy yet?
> 
> I'm on it. I have a floppy booting, but RedHat made a couple of changes to
> support their splash image graphic that displays on boot, so I was working on
> a RTEMS logo splash image to take advantage of that.
> GrUB only sets the video mode to 16 color VGA, so I am trying to figure out
> how to make an RTEMS logo that is 640x480 pixels with only 16 colors in
> gzipped XPM format that looks decent.
> I've gotten various combinations of the requirements, but always seem to miss
> the "looks decent" part when I get it cut down to 16 colors.
> If anyone on the list is a little more graphics talented than I am, I would
> appreciate some help with that part.

Thanks.  I will ask Mark if he can do that.  For now, if you have a grub
image
with a hello world, I would love to have it since I can't boot my old
PC with the old grub I have.  Jeffrey Engel was nice enough to send me
a real Novell NE2000 ISA card and I want to get it up under RTEMS.  I
have
it working now under Windows so I know the net connection is OK.  I just
can't boot RTEMS on this PC yet.  

Again thanks.  It will be nice to have up to date instructions and
boot floppy support.

> Joel,
> I'll send you what I have sometime this weekend.
> 
> -- Chris Caudle

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