[gPXE] unicode support in gPXE

[Gene Cumm]

2011/3/30 何闯 <justhechuang at 163.com>:
> Can I achieve that via framebuffer ? Does gPXE has a framebuffer API
> interface?

I believe gPXE does not do anything but text mode.  That said, I
stated that you can use gPXE to boot, load PXELINUX then run
vesamenu.c32 or gfxboot.c32, both of which use VESA graphics and are
your best chance to display anything outside the 8-bit OEM code page.
I've read something within EFI/uEFI might help but there are
comparatively few machines that have an EFI/uEFI boot system.

In fact, if you grab the correct files, you can actually replicate the
screen shot you pasted (that I posted to the list) from a network
boot.

-- 
-Gene

> At 2011-03-30，"Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Reverting to plain text (although I think unicode) for archive/search
>>and in case the mail gets blocked by the mail server.
>>
>>2011/3/29 何闯 <justhechuang at 163.com>
>>>
>>> >If you could provide a reference, perhaps some light can be shed on
>>> >the topic.  Pictures might do but the addition of other configuration
>>> >details (even by links to web pages) would help more solidly determine
>>> >the situation behind what you have seen.
>>> >
>>> >--
>>> >-Gene
>>>
>>> What I want is like this effect in gPXE:
>>>
>>> 1. AoE 启动
>>> 2.iSCSI 启动
>>> 3.HTTP 启动
>>>
>>> please choose: [1~3]
>>>
>>> sample pictures:
>>
>>Thanks for the picture.  Along the bottom it plainly states "GFXBOOT".
>> Knowing what the other Syslinux menu systems look like, I'm pretty
>>sure it's not one of those.  gPXE does not really have an end-user
>>selection system however it does load PXELINUX rather easily and
>>PXELINUX can provide a menu through menu.c32/vesamenu.c32/gfxboot.c32
>>(or the cmenu system).
>>
>>2011/3/30 何闯 <justhechuang at 163.com>
>>>
>>> If possible, I want do something for this.
>>> Please give me suggestions on how to achieve that.
>>> yours,
>>> soforth
>>
>>To achieve what you see in that picture though network booting, the
>>sequence would be gPXE (loaded from local media, including a ROM, or
>>via PXE) loading PXELINUX loading gfxboot.c32 with any needed parts.
>>You'll want to look at gpxecmd.c32 (the COM32 module to issue commands
>>back to gPXE like sanboot) and you'll really want a recent version of
>>the Syslinux package (either a testing version of 4.04-pre14 or 3.86;
>>older 4.xx have a bug solved in recent testing versions).  There have
>>been several enhancements to gfxboot.c32 since 3.86 that would lean me
>>towards 4.04-pre* (hopefully 4.04 will be released soon).
>>
>>See http://syslinux.zytor.com