[coreboot] Seabios / Coreboot / splash

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:48:17AM +0000, Johan S wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yet i can't get a splash i almost certain having done things right:
> 
> johan at debian:~/coreboot$ strings build/coreboot.rom |grep -i splash
> (bootsplash.jpg
> johan at debian:~/coreboot$ strings build/coreboot.rom |grep -i vga
> VGA_
[...]

The seabios debug log is needed to diagnose seabios problems:

  http://www.seabios.org/Debugging

The wiki appears to be down right now, but a mirror is at:

  https://github.com/KevinOConnor/seabios/blob/master/docs/Debugging.md

[...]
> johan at debian:~/coreboot$ identify /home/johan/bootsplash2.jpg 
> /home/johan/bootsplash2.jpg JPEG 800x768 800x768+0+0 8-bit sRGB 47.1KB 0.000u 0:00.019
> 
> As a result i get a screen @1024*768 , displaying press F12 ... but no splash 
> 
> Can't figure why ...
> Can someone give me pointers ?

The size of the image must exactly match the resolution of the screen
(1024x768 vs 800x768).  See:

  https://github.com/KevinOConnor/seabios/blob/master/docs/Runtime_config.md

-Kevin