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Offline floppy

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(solved) Background not working by boot with syslinux?
« on: June 03, 2011, 01:27:39 PM »
hello,
I installed a background in /opt/backgrounds.
But this is not loaded by booting via a CF card which has syslinux.
Is it perhaps related to syslinux? the directory name "backgrounds" has more than 8 letters.
Or I am missing something here?
This issue came up by testing a new laptop. See http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9831.msg53707#new
« Last Edit: June 16, 2011, 01:07:31 AM by floppy »
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Background not working by boot with syslinux?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2011, 01:55:18 PM »
You need to add opt/backgrounds to /opt/.filetool.lst and do a backup.

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Re: Background not working by boot with syslinux?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2011, 02:26:17 PM »
Unrelated to bootloader (syslinux).
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Re: (solved) Background not working by boot with syslinux?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2011, 01:13:56 AM »
correct tinypoodle, this is unreleated to syslinux because it happens with boot via grub, too.
This is solved. Here is the solution:
- despite wallpaper in /opt/backgrounds (in "mydata"), it did not come to the screen
- the wallpaper was activated in the wallpaper menu of the "control panel"
- then I made a backup with bootlocal.sh -b (just in case..) and now..
the wallpaper is coming automatically.
AMD K6-IIIATZ 550MHz MB DFI K6xv3/+66
P4 HP DC7100 3GB 3GHz
Samsung NC10 boot from SD card port (via USB reader)
.. all TinyCore proofed