Comments on: iPXE: Now with Native Menus and SmartOS Support http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ipxe-now-with-native-menus-and-smartos-support The Blog of Ben Rockwood Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jeppe Toustrup http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27456 Jeppe Toustrup Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:45:47 +0000 http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27456 Thank you for the reference to specifying colors for the menu, that's at least a start :) Thank you for the reference to specifying colors for the menu, that’s at least a start :)

]]> By: Robin Smidsrød http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27455 Robin Smidsrød Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:06:26 +0000 http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27455 Thanks for linking to my example. Hope you find it useful. @Jeppe: Since the menu is using the BIOS-provided text mode, it is limited by what the BIOS text mode interface provides. You can specify the default colors used by all of the interactive TUIs in the file src/config/colour.h (usually changed for your site by modifying src/config/local/colour.h). The color codes you can use are defined in src/include/curses.h. You need to recompile to make this stick. Since it is a BIOS-provided text mode you can also use ANSI escape sequences in any text you output with very little effort. This should allow you to use fancy ASCII-art. You can see an example of how to do that at this link: http://www.ipxe.org/cmd/set @Ben: Great article about how iPXE is moving the netbooting state of the art forward. PS: s/dump PXE/dumb PXE/ Thanks for linking to my example. Hope you find it useful.

@Jeppe: Since the menu is using the BIOS-provided text mode, it is limited by what the BIOS text mode interface provides. You can specify the default colors used by all of the interactive TUIs in the file src/config/colour.h (usually changed for your site by modifying src/config/local/colour.h). The color codes you can use are defined in src/include/curses.h. You need to recompile to make this stick.

Since it is a BIOS-provided text mode you can also use ANSI escape sequences in any text you output with very little effort. This should allow you to use fancy ASCII-art. You can see an example of how to do that at this link: http://www.ipxe.org/cmd/set

@Ben: Great article about how iPXE is moving the netbooting state of the art forward. PS: s/dump PXE/dumb PXE/

]]> By: Jeppe Toustrup http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27453 Jeppe Toustrup Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:00:50 +0000 http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=779#comment-27453 There's also a pretty extensive iPXE menu example made by on the of community members here: https://gist.github.com/2234639 The only thing I lack from the native menu compared to menu.c32, is the ability to style it, just for that extra bling effect :) There’s also a pretty extensive iPXE menu example made by on the of community members here: https://gist.github.com/2234639

The only thing I lack from the native menu compared to menu.c32, is the ability to style it, just for that extra bling effect :)

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