PXE Boot Menu Background

bdegier · 01-31-2011, 05:45 AM

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 following file as a test: http://www.howtoforge.com/images/pxe...oforge_pxe.png

Here is my menu.cfg:

Code:

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

label abd
        menu label Active Bootdisk
        kernel memdisk
        append iso raw initrd=ABD.iso

label gparted
        menu label GParted
        kernel gparted/vmlinuz1
        append initrd=gparted/initrd1.img boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://172.13.14.9/gpxe/gparted/filesystem.squashfs

label ubcd
        menu label Ultimate Boot CD
        kernel memdisk
        append iso raw initrd=ubcd/ubcd503.iso

label 2xclient
        menu label 2X ThinClientOS LiveCD
        kernel 2xclient/linux26
        append initrd=2xclient/rootdisk26.img quiet console=tty2 bootm=pxe vga=0x311 BOOT_OPT_START udev nofloppy usb2 BOOT_OPT_END ro  oemedition

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.

Could someone please assist me in this? I'm quite lost

Thanks,

Bento

Dutch Master · 01-31-2011, 05:57 AM

check permissions
check filenames+extensions
check contents of the /tftpboot directory

The link you provided didn't work, this one does: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up...ubuntu-9.10-p3

bdegier · 01-31-2011, 08:07 AM

Permissions we're set to root, i changed the splash.png to nobody and nogroup and chmodded the file to 777.

I am not using the tftpboot directory because i'm using iPXE which boots the menu.cfg described above. All these files reside in my www directory because iPXE allows for booting over HTTP.

I will try and check if this helped later today.

bdegier · 02-07-2011, 06:35 AM

Sorry for the late reply but things got a little busy last week :-) I set the permissions to what is stated above but it sadly did not work.

Any suggestions?

[edit] I found a site called netboot.me today and took a look at their bootscripts. I copied the whole thing and dumped it into my menu.cfg

Quote:

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 http://www.netboot.me/images/boot.png
prompt 0
allowoptions 0

menu title netboot.me boot menu

This seems to work slightly. I can now see a purple banner on top of the screen and a small part of the shoe in the picture. http://www.netboot.me/images/boot.png

The rest of the screen stays black