[ipxe-devel] Need help using a background image in the boot menu

[VBVB Servicedesk - Bento de Gier]

Hi,

Yeah the dimensions are 640x480. To be sure i am now using this remote image which should work: http://www.netboot.me/images/boot.png

I also used some of their menu.cfg code in my menu.cfg:

menu hshift 0
menu width 49
menu margin 8
menu color title        * #FFFFFFFF *
menu color border       * #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color sel          * #ffffffff #999999ff *
menu color hotsel       1;7;37;40 #ffffffff #999999ff *
menu color tabmsg       * #ffffffff #00000000 *
menu vshift 8
menu rows 10
menu helpmsgrow 16
menu background /images/boot.png
prompt 0
allowoptions 0

menu title netboot.me boot menu


This makes the menu have a small purple banner on top of the screen with a barely visable portion of the boot. The rest is gibberish or black.

I'm running Debian.

Bento

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Matthew Walster [mailto:matthew at walster.org] 
Verzonden: maandag 7 februari 2011 14:28
Aan: VBVB Servicedesk - Bento de Gier
CC: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Onderwerp: Re: [ipxe-devel] Need help using a background image in the boot menu

Bento,

On 7 February 2011 12:36, VBVB Servicedesk - Bento de Gier <Bento at vbvb.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Just troubleshooting - the PNG, what dimensions does it have? It should be 640x480 in order to display correctly.

Matthew Walster