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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi,</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>I have just installed our PXE boot server using PXE which chainloads iPXE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://ipxe.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#22229C'>http://ipxe.org/</span></a>. iPXE loads a menu.cfg which displays a nice menu which allows our employees to choose what to boot (Ghost, GParted, UBCD etc.).</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>The menu etc. all works fine. To spice it up a bit i want to add a menu background. I know this is possible but i keep failing. I tried to use the file available here as a test: </span></span><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-pxe-install-server-on-ubuntu-9.10-p3">http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-pxe-install-server-on-ubuntu-9.10-p3</a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>Here is my (shortened) menu.cfg:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>DEFAULT vesamenu.c32<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PROMPT 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU MARGIN 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU ROWS 16<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU TABMSGROW 21<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU TIMEOUTROW 26<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44 #20ffffff #00000000 none<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU COLOR SCROLLBAR 30;44 #20ffffff #00000000 none<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU COLOR TITLE 0 #ffffffff #00000000 none<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU COLOR SEL 30;47 #40000000 #20ffffff<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU BACKGROUND splash.png<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>timeout 1200<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>label local<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> menu label Boot local HDD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> localboot 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>label ghost<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> menu label Symantec Ghost<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> menu default<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> kernel memdisk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> append initrd=ghost/ghost.img<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Now using a .jpg file i get the following screen:</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://i56.tinypic.com/vemdew.jpg" target="_blank"><span style='color:#22229C'>http://i56.tinypic.com/vemdew.jpg</span></a></span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>Notice the “crap” at the top of the screen. That colored line dissapears when i use an 8 bit PNG but the background stays black. I've tried alot of different "How To's" i found online.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Splash.png is in the same directory as this menu.cfg is in which is /var/www/pxe/ where all my ISO’s etc reside. My DHCP options are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------------</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>subnet 172.13.14.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> range 172.13.14.30 172.13.14.200;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> option domain-name-servers 172.13.14.1;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> option routers 172.13.14.1;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> filename "http://172.13.14.9/pxe/menu.gpxe";<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> } else {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> filename "undionly-ipxe.kpxe";<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> next-server 172.13.14.9;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> option tftp-server-name "172.13.14.9";<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> option domain-name "vbvb.td";<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> option thinsrv 172.13.14.92;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> # required by Intel PXE-2.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> server-identifier 172.13.14.9;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please advice! <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bento<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>