Michael Brown

> Hi, thanks for your explanation. I have moved most of `config.c` into a new `config_exec.c`, and let `autoboot.c` (actually the `ipxe()` function in it) require it. In this way,...

> Thanks for your clarification. However, all the objects except `device` in `config.c` is not used by a `efidrv` with `EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX`, which means we should classify almost all the `REQUIRE`...

Fixed in https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/7f75d320f

This was fixed **approximately nine years ago** in commit https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/fdad22a1e

> Oh, wow, I did try building master before, but it failed elsewhere unrelated. Sorry for not spotting the fix before, and it's truly shameful that ubuntu's package is so...

Your serial terminal emulator is failing to apply the background colour when clearing the screen, so that you end up with only the explicitly drawn characters having a background. What...