[SOLVED] Syslinux, how to change colors?

twilight0 · 2011-05-19 13:38:38

I have successfully installed syslinux, however I would like to change its colors, especially the background color and I like it black.

I have already visited the syslinux wiki and off course the arch's wiki and I have a proper syslinux.cfg, but the "MENU COLOR screen 30;40 #ffffffff #ffffffff none" option does not change the background to black.

Am I doing anything wrong?

EDIT: I marked this solved because my problem was this white block and now I fixed by just appending a vga=current in the kernel line.

Last edited by twilight0 (2011-10-31 23:45:43)

greyscale · 2011-05-23 08:32:33

Hi.

Could you post the whole syslinux.cfg?

Are your using menu.c32 for UI?

I replaced grub with syslinux myself just short ago so no expert but I can take a look at your config if you want too,
but feels like it's a little too much guessing about your setup with just that line to go on.

twilight0 · 2011-05-23 11:40:00

Thank you for your reply, here's my syslinux.cfg

http://pastebin.com/gGKARyDv

I use the vesamenu with background now but when I choose an option the whole screen turns grey and then becomes a box that appears on the boot log screen. If you need me to make it more understandable I can take a picture and/or a video. I think if I change to background color thats behind the splash picture I can make it disappear.

greyscale · 2011-05-26 19:33:32

Sorry for the delay, I was pretty occupied earlier this week.

I tested your setting by changing UI to menu.c32 and replace my MENU section with the one you gave me.

Haven't tried the resolution you have so changed MENU VSHIFT to 10 and removed MENU HSHIFT still a bit
"off the screen" with the menu but I get a black background behind the blue menu.

I'm running syslinux-git from aur: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44890

twilight0 · 2011-05-26 21:49:49

No problem about the delay.

Don't worry about the shifts of the menu, its resolution dependent. I use the vesa menu and I havent tried the simple menu.c32 yet. And since then I changed my syslinux.cfg a bit but the problem persists.

anrxc · 2011-05-27 04:27:56

Since when is ffffff black, today? The world must be a strange place then. Also note that first two values are Alpha, and then comes RGB.

By the way I did some messing with this my self recently, and Fingerprint theme is the result: http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2 … index.html

xclaude · 2011-07-24 12:16:57

i had the same problem, when using the "quiet" option in my kernel argument for a faster loading time.
the howle diplay changed to the foreground color and textmessages are displayed in the right background- and forground-colors in black rows.
after the screen-resolution is changed by kms, all the color where right

the quick and dirty fix for me was to give a framebuffer argumet (vga=791) to my kernel line.

LINUX /vmlinuz26
append initrd=/kernel26.img root=/dev/mapper/vg0-1 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:crypt rootfstpe=btrfs vga=791 quiet

Last edited by xclaude (2011-07-24 12:17:21)

twilight0 · 2011-07-24 19:49:19

xclaude wrote:

the quick and dirty fix for me was to give a framebuffer argumet (vga=791) to my kernel line.
LINUX /vmlinuz26
append initrd=/kernel26.img root=/dev/mapper/vg0-1 cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:crypt rootfstpe=btrfs vga=791 quiet

I know about this "dirty" fix, but I cannot use framebuffer, due to early KMS start, necessary for plymouth, for now I just left it as it is....

xclaude wrote:

Since when is ffffff black, today? The world must be a strange place then. Also note that first two values are Alpha, and then comes RGB.
By the way I did some messing with this my self recently, and Fingerprint theme is the result: http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2 … index.html

I only wish they had a more complete documentation about syslinux.cfg, I think I am not asking much.

twilight0 · 2011-07-24 20:48:24

I uploaded the video just to show you this white block which makes my boot eye-candy ugly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY-HcxN6xg

And my current syslinux.cfg (TBH hasnt changed much)

http://pastebin.com/1zLuaje8

Last edited by twilight0 (2011-07-24 20:52:11)

twilight0 · 2011-10-31 23:46:04

Solved, see first post.

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#1 2011-05-19 13:38:38

[SOLVED] Syslinux, how to change colors?

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