errors serving text files using templates and static files

Good morning, I've been writing a Django app to create a dynamic net
boot program to boot configs created by users from a web interface
using a tool called gPXE. I've exhausted my troubleshooting methods
and can't seem to figure out why gPXE can boot from a static file
served directly from apache but having Django serve a templated or
static version of that same file causes gPXE to fail. I'm using
Django 1.2.1 and gPXE 1.0.1 and the issue is present using either the
Apache web server or Django's dev server.

Serving this directly works:

menu hshift 0
menu width 49
menu margin 8
menu color title * #FFFFFFFF *
menu color border * #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color sel * #ffffffff #999999ff *
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ffffffff #999999ff *
menu color tabmsg * #ffffffff #00000000 *
menu vshift 8
menu rows 10
menu helpmsgrow 16
menu background /netboot/images/boot.png

menu title OSTG boot menu

label Actual Ubuntu installer
menu label Actual Ubuntu installer
text help
Proof of concept load of locally hosted Ubuntu installer
endtext
kernel /netboot/14/boot.gpxe

It doesn't work though if it is served either statically or any
derivative of an http response using Django. A hard-coded http
response follows that serves an identical file using my web browser
but fails to load if accessed in gPXE:

def bootmenu(request):
menu = "menu hshift 0\nmenu width 49\nmenu margin 8\nmenu color
title * #FFFFFFFF *\nmenu color border * #00000000
#00000000 none\nmenu color sel * #ffffffff #999999ff *\nmenu
color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ffffffff #999999ff *\nmenu color
tabmsg * #ffffffff #00000000 *\nmenu vshift 8\nmenu rows
10\nmenu helpmsgrow 16\nmenu background /netboot/images/boot.png\n\n
\nmenu title OSTG boot menu\n\n\n \nlabel Actual Ubuntu installer
\n menu label Actual Ubuntu installer\n text help\nProof of concept
load of locally hosted Ubuntu installer\n endtext\n kernel /netboot/
14/boot.gpxe\n"
return HttpResponse(menu, mimetype="plain/text")

What makes Django's text serving different? What can I do to
troubleshoot this issue further? Am I just missing something about
how text files are served?

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