Description of problem: As in subject! It has been there a while, it does not hurt. But looks better without. Screenshot to follow soonish. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Platform "all" is an assumption, but likely right one ;) Will check.
Whiteboard: (none) => 5beta1CC: (none) => tmbHardware: x86_64 => AllAssignee: bugsquad => ennael1
Created attachment 5578 [details] Screenshot showcasing the syslinux gibberish
CC: (none) => remi
Looking at the punctuation, I think it's meant to mean something, but somehow written in the standard galactical alphabet? http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Standard_Galactic_Alphabet
is it still valid ? Tried here with a very slow connection to catch it but all was ok. It seems to me it was fixed in previous release (deprecated option in isolinux.conf)
Yes I did see it with the last build of beta1
Seen again with gnome LiveDVD 64 bits built 11.12.2014.
Whiteboard: 5beta1 => 5beta2Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-0.pre18.2 => syslinux-6.03-1
Summary: [m5b1] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish => [m5b2] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish
Still valid
Whiteboard: 5beta2 => 5beta3Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-1 => syslinux-6.03-2
still valid when booting CD Mageia-5-beta3-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, Mon Feb 9 18:00:00 CET 2015
CC: (none) => westel
still valid when booting CD Mageia-5-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, Sat Mar 21 13:00:00 CET 2015
still valid when booting CD Mageia-5-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, fri april 10
CC: (none) => marja11Whiteboard: 5beta3 => 5RC
valid 15th april isos
CC: (none) => eeeemail
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 6
Still valid for isos of M6 dev1
Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-2 => syslinux-6.03-3Summary: [m5b2] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish => [m6dev1] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberishWhiteboard: 5RC => 6dev1
valid for Mageia-6-dev1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Sun Feb 28 07:30:00 CET 2016 when in virtual-box
Keywords: (none) => 6dev1Whiteboard: 6dev1 => (none)
valid for: Mageia-6-sta1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-x86_64-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Mon May 2 08:30:00 CEST 2016 on real hw
Keywords: 6dev1 => 6sta1
va;id for Live DVD's dated 12th July 2016
Keywords: 6sta1 => 6RC
Blocks: (none) => 15527
Here's what Ady said yesterday about this bug in #mageia-bugsquad: 2016:09:12:17:46 < Ady> marja: I can confirm what I wrote here about https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14471 . The problem is in http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive/tree/draklive?id=786171ebb7723a74b841f7c1c1457bd825783a16#n640 (the line is there since..., well, "forever"). 2016:09:12:17:48 < Ady> As I said, I do not know what is/was the intention of this line. From the POV of the resulting "boot/help.msg" file inside the LIVE DVD ISO images, that line is simply wrong. Whether it was intended to generate something else (too), I do not know / understand it. 2016:09:12:17:52 < Ady> The characters generated by 'pack("C*", 0x0E, 0x80, 0x03, 0x00, 0xC) . qq(' are incorrect for the msg file, so it shows the "gibberish". The only character from those that makes sense for this msg file is "0xC".
Thanks, it would thus be a draklive issue actually and not a syslinux one then. As mentioned by Ady, this line has been there forever, I checked the first commit we have in the draklive repo (2007) and it's already there - so git history won't help here.
CC: (none) => isobuildAssignee: ennael1 => mageiatoolsSummary: [m6dev1] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish => LiveDVD: Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberishSource RPM: syslinux-6.03-3 => draklive
keyword: current Lives
Keywords: 6sta1.5 => 6sta2
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #16) > 2016:09:12:17:48 < Ady> As I said, I do not know what is/was the intention > of this line. From the POV of the resulting "boot/help.msg" file inside the > LIVE DVD ISO images, that line is simply wrong. Whether it was intended to > generate something else (too), I do not know / understand it. It looks like some kind of display control sequence, but it's not anything described in http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=SYSLINUX#What_is_the_DISPLAY_File_Format.3F Maybe Mandriva had a patched version of syslinux that recognised other sequences? Anyway, it obviously doesn't work now, so let's remove it.
CC: (none) => mageia
commit f8ff6cc7fc75bdb3369093f563b84a4fa5e2deb6 Author: Martin Whitaker <mageia@...> Date: Sat Dec 17 16:57:42 2016 +0000 draklive: remove control characters from boot/help.msg (mga#14471). This looks like it was intended to be a display control sequence, but it doesn't work, and just results in display corruption. --- Commit Link: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive/commit/?id=f8ff6cc7fc75bdb3369093f563b84a4fa5e2deb6
Blocks: 15527 => (none)
Isn't this bug fixed?
This should be fixed in the latest sta2 ISOs. Dick, please reopen if you think otherwise.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED