[syslinux] 3.20-pre5 vesamenu works pretty well in ATI and Intel VGA chips

[H. Peter Anvin]

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Without the background image, the one with vesamenu.c32 looks like:
> http://lfod.nchc.org.tw/stick/drbl/drbl-pxe-screenshot-no-bg.png

That's actually the graphical menu on a black background.

> However, with menu.c32 (also from syslinux-3.30-pre5), it looks like:
> http://lfod.nchc.org.tw/stick/drbl/drbl-pxe-text-mode.png
> 
> The pxelinux config file is http://lfod.nchc.org.tw/stick/drbl/pxe.conf
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Steven.

Okay... so why do you want to use the graphical menu on a black 
background?  In other words, if you want a plain text menu, use menu.c32.

Anyway, what you would do, is to use all opaque colors (#ffxxxxxx).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter describe the colors 
used (or you can tweak them, if you prefer; personally I think e.g. 
bright cyan looks better as #ff00ffff instead of #ff55ffff).  To pick 
the colors, look at README.menu and check the colors in the ANSI column. 
  The foreground is selected by the 1 code (for brightness) and the 
30-37 color codes -- color codes 40-47 represent the background.

For example:

menu color title 1;36;44 #ff55ffff #ff0000aa

	-hpa