I see, thanks.

I’ll try one last time with those proportions.

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cga

in those steps above i forgot to mention that dimensions are important.

if i try with a native 1280×800 image i get the hostname shown in default position and a gray background without boot options/icons.

only by using a smaller image (say 400×108) i can get it to work in that position as this: http://yfrog.com/jtmyrefitunithemeactualrep

I managed to make a custom hostname by working a bit hard and logically with Photostop. Can’t remember the exact steps but here’s some off the top of my head:

- use rEFIt default gray for bg (RGB=191)
- merge layer (bg and text)
- flatten image
- convert image mode -> grayscale
- save as bmp

This is what I achieved: http://yfrog.com/jtmyrefitunithemeactualrep

I’m almost there. I think that the hostname position cannot be changed since (i guess) it’s hardcoded in rEFIt code somewhere.

Can anyone please disprove this and tell me how to position the hostname like this: http://yfrog.com/j7myrefitunithemegraywithp

Please thanks

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cga

I managed to get a black rEFIt screen (+ your selections) with a 14×14 pixel hostname.bmp found on idflood.com, but I finally made my mind up about colors and I ditched black in favor of gray.

Anyway no matter what I try I cannot get my “banner hostname.bmp” to show up with my hostname: (big with name, made myself and named graywithname.bmp) http://yfrog.com/jpgraywithnamep

This is what I’d like to achieve as a final result: http://yfrog.com/j7myrefitunithemegraywithp

BUT there’s one big problem, when I enable my hostname.bmp (if different from the one above 14×14):

[...]
banner graywithname.bmp
hideui label shell tools
[...]

I get a black screen at boot and cannot boot from rEFIt. The only thing left Is to boot from a rEFIt CD.

I read in the above comments that the only way to get hostname work is to edit a working hostname.bmp file and just paste and Save it (not Save as) into it. I did try this way but cannot get it to work neither like this.

What do I do wrong?

Please
Thanks

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cga

also, can you tell us howto to show hostname in the middle just above the os icons? (or in any position?)

to make my rEFIt look better: http://img707.imageshack.us/i/myrefitunitheme.png/

Question: I only wonder how to make a black background. Can you link us the image and the line of refi.conf ?

Here’s my refit.conf:

timeout 10
disable all
selection_big SelectionL.bmp
selection_small SelectionS.bmp
hidebadges internal
hideui banner shell tools
legacyfirst

For whatever reason, any bitmap created by Photoshop on my computer doesn’t work, but I can modify one that does, and it still works. Some nonsense I haven’t yet traced.

Just posting this in case anyone else has a similar issue.