i think you don't understand me and you don't understand the term "text mode".
when you set the boot manager to text mode, then the graphic card is used in a standard text mode with 80x50 chars with a few modifications. see later! the difference to the graphic mode is that the graphic card is used in graphic mode with 640x480x256 up to 1280x1024x256 pixels!
my plan was, that the boot manager text mode look similar to the graphic mode but the graphic card is in text mode. obviously i did a good job, because many people doesn't figure out that the text mode of the boot manager is NO graphic mode. does the people not see the difference between the T80x50 and the G640x480 mode? i think, the modes are still looking very different, but thats the limitation of text mode.
what modifications have i done that the text mode looks like a graphic mode? i programmed a window control system that manages the windows in text mode in the same way as in the graphic mode (positions, content, ...). i changed the color palette of the few text mode colors that they are looking similar to the graphic mode colors. i changed the rom font that i get cool borders in the text mode and an alternative font.
i don't know what you understand with text mode, but my definition of text mode is "setup the graphic card to the text mode".
; init text mode code
;-----------------------------------
; set text mode 80x25
mov ax,3
int 10h
; load rom font 8x8 and switch to text mode 80x50
mov ax,1112h
xor bx,bx
int 10h
you want only a list of the options without the windows and background. but thats not a definition of text mode. in your understanding would run every dos program in graphic mode that has windows or using colors. and thats wrong.
text mode doesn't seem to do anything for me....it still boots into the menu with the green text in the blue square background in the upper left corner. below is my config.
how do I make it use just text mode with no colored fonts or squares in the background?
i say the same again as in a posting before. no this is not possible.
you will always have the menu and colored font and so on in the text mode and in the graphic mode. the only mode without menu is the hidden mode.
a menu and a colored font does not mean that its not text mode. i think you don't know what magic things are possible in text mode!
elmar