[ipxe-devel] Using a background image in the boot menu

[VBVB Servicedesk - Bento de Gier]

Hi,

I have just installed our PXE boot server using PXE which chainloads iPXE http://ipxe.org/. iPXE loads a menu.cfg which displays a nice menu which allows our employees to choose what to boot (Ghost, GParted, UBCD etc.).

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: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-pxe-install-server-on-ubuntu-9.10-p3

Here is my (shortened) menu.cfg:
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DEFAULT      vesamenu.c32
PROMPT       0
MENU MARGIN 10
MENU ROWS 16
MENU TABMSGROW 21
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44         #20ffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SCROLLBAR 30;44              #20ffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TITLE 0              #ffffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SEL   30;47          #40000000 #20ffffff
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu
timeout 1200

label local
        menu label Boot local HDD
        localboot 1

label ghost
        menu label Symantec Ghost
        menu default
        kernel memdisk
        append initrd=ghost/ghost.img
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Now using a .jpg file i get the following screen:
http://i56.tinypic.com/vemdew.jpg

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.

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:

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subnet 172.13.14.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        range 172.13.14.30 172.13.14.200;
        option domain-name-servers 172.13.14.1;
        option routers 172.13.14.1;
         if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
              filename "http://172.13.14.9/pxe/menu.gpxe";
          } else {
              filename "undionly-ipxe.kpxe";
         }
        next-server 172.13.14.9;
        option tftp-server-name "172.13.14.9";
        option domain-name "vbvb.td";
        option thinsrv 172.13.14.92;
        # required by Intel PXE-2.1
        server-identifier 172.13.14.9;
}
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Please advice! :)

Thanks,

Bento
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