Graphical PXE Boot Menu example

Using syslinux 4.02. This example has nested menus that use separate menu files. Also a pretty background.

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UI vesamenu.c32                                
PROMPT 0                                    
TIMEOUT 600                                  
TOTALTIMEOUT 6000                            
ONTIMEOUT local                              
#MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
MENU BACKGROUND pxebackground.png
MENU TITLE Boot Menu    
MENU AUTOBOOT Will boot the next device as configured in your BIOS in # second{,s}.
MENU TABMSG   Press the key to edit the boot parameters of the highlighted option.
#MENU NOTABMSG Editing of this option is disabled.                                    
MENU COLOR screen      0  #80ffffff #00000000 std      # background colour not covered by the splash image
MENU COLOR border      0  #ffffffff #ee000000 std      # The wire-frame border                          
MENU COLOR title       0  #ffff3f7f #ee000000 std      # Menu title text                                
MENU COLOR sel         0  #ff00dfdf #ee000000 std      # Selected menu option                          
MENU COLOR hotsel      0  #ff7f7fff #ee000000 std      # The selected hotkey (set with ^ in MENU LABEL)
MENU COLOR unsel       0  #ffffffff #ee000000 std      # Unselected menu options                        
MENU COLOR hotkey      0  #ff7f7fff #ee000000 std      # Unselected hotkeys (set with ^ in MENU LABEL)  
MENU COLOR tabmsg      0  #c07f7fff #00000000 std      # Tab text                                      
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0  #8000dfdf #00000000 std      # Timout text                                    
MENU COLOR timeout     0  #c0ff3f7f #00000000 std      # Timout counter                                
MENU COLOR disabled    0  #807f7f7f #ee000000 std      # Disabled menu options, including SEPARATORs    
MENU COLOR cmdmark     0  #c000ffff #ee000000 std      # Command line marker - The '> ' on the left when editing an option
MENU COLOR cmdline     0  #c0ffffff #ee000000 std      # Command line - The text being edited
# Options below haven't been tested, descriptions may be lacking.
MENU COLOR scrollbar   0  #40000000 #00000000 std      # Scroll bar
MENU COLOR pwdborder   0  #80ffffff #20ffffff std      # Password box wire-frame border
MENU COLOR pwdheader   0  #80ff8080 #20ffffff std      # Password box header
MENU COLOR pwdentry    0  #80ffffff #20ffffff std      # Password entry field
MENU COLOR help        0  #c0ffffff #00000000 std      # Help text, if set via 'TEXT HELP ... ENDTEXT'
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 20
MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
MENU ROWS 6
MENU TABMSGROW 18
MENU CMDLINEROW 18
MENU ENDROW -1
MENU PASSWORDROW 11
MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
MENU VSHIFT 8
MENU PASSPROMPT Enter Password:
NOESCAPE 1
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
LABEL local
        MENU LABEL ^A) Boot Local Disk
        MENU DEFAULT
        localboot 0
MENU BEGIN workstations
        MENU TITLE Workstation Images
        LABEL Previous
        MENU LABEL ^B) Previous Menu
        MENU EXIT
        MENU SEPARATOR
        MENU INCLUDE workstations
MENU END
MENU BEGIN tools
        MENU TITLE Tools
        LABEL Previous
        MENU LABEL ^C) Previous Menu
        MENU EXIT
        MENU SEPARATOR
        MENU INCLUDE tools
MENU END​