How to Dual boot Puppy & XP from ANY removable media.

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An alternate high quality splash screen (beach.png) for syslinux is attached. (Resolution 1024x768 - 1.41MEG)
I did not expect this to work but having converted it from jpg to png it loads with no discernable delay.
Your MMV as syslinux's ability to display high quality splash screens varies with the
vesa abilities of the video chip or card & display. Having said that I am using a 7 year
old Nvidia GeForce 7300SE & later cards/chips have improved dramatically since then.

Also attached is a copy of vesamenu.c32 from syslinux 4.04.

The revised block of syntax for syslinux.cfg is as follows with the other splash screens simply commented out.

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# Boot using 16 MEG Smartmedia with main sfs & savefile on NTFS HDD (sda1)
# Splash screen with RED text & beach background (1024x768)
DEFAULT /vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 120
MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
MENU BACKGROUND /beach.png
# MENU BACKGROUND /bart9splash.jpg
# MENU BACKGROUND /puppy.jpg
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