MyE2B.cfg menu settings
Here is a list of the most useful MyE2B.cfg settings which affect the menu position/size/layout/behaviour.
See the Sample_MyE2B.cfg file for more details of each setting and for many more menu settings.
This is NOT a sample MyE2B.cfg file – it just demonstrates some of the possible menu settings.
The MENU AREA should be kept free of all other text and animations.
Line beginning with a # are ignored by grub4dos (commented out).
# set graphics mode - use 800 (default - recommended) or 1024 (max) # XY max - 1024x768 = 128 characters x 48 lines, 800x600 = 100 characters x 37 lines set GMODE=800 # set the MENU WALLPAPER BACKGROUND - can use .bmp or .jpg or pure RRGGBB colour (e.g. 0xff0033) set MYWBMP=/_ISO/sunset.bmp # Main Menu Heading set HEADING=\x20 EASY2BOOT - MAIN MENU (%VER%) %B64% # set start position of HEADING using HEADPOS=YYXX set HEADPOS=0000 # Heading colour 0xRRGGBB set HCOLOUR=0xFF0000 # Colour of Menu FOOTER text set FCOLOUR=0x00FF00 # FOOTER help text position YYXX - for 800x600 try HBTM=3502, for 1024x768 try HBTM=4712 set HBTM=3502 # FOOTER help text set HELPTEXT=HDD0 [F7] Back [F8] Reboot [F9] Power Off [F10] (%^LANG%) # set text colours color helptext=0xFFFFFF color standard=0x994c00 color border=0xFF0000 color normal=0x777700 color highlight=0xFFFF00 ;; # yellow + background will be transparent # highlight colour can also have a background colour # color highlight=0x0022222200FFFF00 ;; # yellow + background will be 222222 (v. dark grey/black) # width of menu border (0= no border) set bdwidth=1 # right hand side starting column of menu (use 2 or more) set rstart=3 # width of menu area set menuw=62 # line at which to start menu area set topstart=2 # number if menu items (=height of menu) set noitems=24 # position of menu item help text set tophelp=26 # hstart and hwidth do not normally need to be defined # hstart = x position of menu help text (default = rstart-1), min = 1, 0=use menu width and menu start # hwidth = width of menu help text (default = menuw+2), 0=use whole width - 2 x hstart # Warning: Graphics corruption will occur if you exceed the width of the screen (hwidth+hstart < 100 for 800x600)! set hwidth=70 set hstart=6 # set a short bar for background of highlighted menu entry set SHORT_HL=1 # centre all menu headings within menu area set CENTREHD=1 # centre the menu entries inside the menu area (and centre help text under menu) setmenu --middle-align # Don't show file extensions in menu set EXTOFF=1 # Turn off auto-numbering set AUTONUM=0 # Turn off the arrow menu pointer setmenu --triangle-off # AUTOMENU = OFF will disable the AUTOMENU jump feature and special grub4dos p, e, b, c keys must be lower case (don't hold down SHIFT key) set AUTOMENU=OFF # LARGE FONTS - FONTH specifies the font height - only values of 16 or 24 are allowed (default = 16 = full unifont character set) # If you set FONTH=24 E2B will use a *limited* default set of 24-pixel high fonts set FONTH=24 # set graphics mode - use 800 (default - recommended) or 1024 (max) # XY max - 1024x768 = 128 characters x 48 lines, 800x600 = 100 characters x 37 lines set GMODE=800 # set the MENU WALLPAPER BACKGROUND - can use .bmp or .jpg or pure RRGGBB colour (e.g. set MYWBMP=0xff0033) set MYWBMP=/_ISO/sunset.bmp # Main Menu Heading - show E2B version (%VER%) and 32\64-bit CPU type + Memory size (%B64%) set HEADING=EASY2BOOT - MAIN MENU (%VER%) %B64% # set start position of HEADING using HEADPOS=YYXX, e.g. 0200 = 3rd line down, far left set HEADPOS=0200 # Heading colour 0xRRGGBB set HCOLOUR=0xFF0000 # Colour of Menu FOOTER text set FCOLOUR=0x00FF00 # FOOTER help text position YYXX - for 800x600 try HBTM=3502, for 1024x768 try HBTM=4712 set HBTM=3502 # FOOTER help text - use %^LANG% to display the current menu language set HELPTEXT=HDD0 [F7] Back [F8] Reboot [F9] Power Off [F10] (%^LANG%) # set text colours 0xRRGGBB, standard is grub4dos console colour, normal is menu entry colour, highlight is the currently selected menu entry colour color helptext=0xFFFFFF color standard=0x994c00 color border=0xFF0000 color normal=0x777700 color highlight=0xFFFF00 ;; # yellow + background will be transparent # highlight colour (and standard colour) can also have a background colour # color highlight=0x0022222200FFFF00 ;; # yellow + background will be 222222 (v. dark grey/black) # width of menu border 0-4 (0= no border) set bdwidth=1 #MENU AREA (for 800x600 we have rows 0-36 and columns 0-99) # right hand side starting column of menu (use 2 or more) set rstart=3 # width of menu area set menuw=62 # line at which to start menu area set topstart=2 # number of menu items (height of menu) set noitems=24 # position of menu item help text set tophelp=26 # menu entry help text additional settings - hstart and hwidth do not normally need to be defined # hstart = x position of menu help text (default = rstart-1), min = 1, 0=use menu width and menu start # hwidth = width of menu help text (default = menuw+2), 0=use whole width - 2 x hstart # Warning: Graphics corruption will occur if you exceed the width of the screen (hwidth+hstart < 100 for 800x600)! set hwidth=70 set hstart=6 # set a short bar for background of highlighted menu entry (only valid if background colour set for highlight colour) set SHORT_HL=1 # centre all menu headings within menu area set CENTREHD=1 # centre the menu entries inside the menu area (and also centre menu entry help text for menu) setmenu --middle-align # Show file extensions in menu set EXTOFF= # Turn off auto-numbering set AUTONUM=0 # Turn off the arrow menu pointer setmenu --triangle-off # AUTOMENU = OFF will disable the AUTOMENU jump feature - special grub4dos p, e, b, c menu keys must be lower case (don't hold down SHIFT key) set AUTOMENU=OFF # LARGE FONTS - FONTH specifies the font height - only values of 16 or 24 are allowed (default = 16 = full unifont character set) # If you set FONTH=24 E2B will use a *limited* default set of 24-pixel high English fonts and number of characters per row\column will be reduced, 1024x768=85 chars x 32 lines, 800x600=66x25 lines ###set FONTH=24