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Ansi colors in boot menu?

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First post, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2015-08-29, 12:38

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I know that we can modify colors of text in batch files with enhancers (btw, what is the best one? batchman?).
I was wondering if its possible to do that in boot autoexec.bat and config.sys
I can load Ansi.sys and change colors of booted drivers, however menu is unmodifiable.

P.S. I'm taking about XMS EMS Choice menu in dos 7.1

Reply 1 of 2, by keropi

Posted on 2015-08-29, 12:40

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you can change the color of your boot menu , at least background/foreground:

1Add a dash of color to your menu
2You can add a line anywhere in your menu to change the default colors of your menu. 
3MENUCOLOR x, y 
4x is the color of the menu text and y is the color of the background. Here's a list of color codes:
5
6       0 BLACK                    8 GREY
7       1 BLUE                     9 BRIGHT BLUE
8       2 GREEN          	  10 BRIGHT GREEN
9       3 CYAN			  11 BRIGHT CYAN
10       4 RED			  12 BRIGHT RED
11       5 MAGENTA		  13 BRIGHT MAGENTA
12       6 BROWN	        	  14 YELLOW
13       7 WHITE   		  15 BRIGHT WHITE

source: http://dos.rsvs.net/DOSPAGE/CONFMENU.HTM

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Reply 2 of 2, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-08-29, 12:53

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The boot menu appears before anything is loaded in CONFIG.SYS, so there is no way to use that to change the menu's colors. You are restricted to what you can do with MENUCOLOR.

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