Michael DeHaan wrote:
Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
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Allright, so I've got a pretty good prototype of pxelinux menus being
generated from Cobbler now. One small problem -- timeouts don't appear
to count down at all -- or else, they just don't work -- documentation
is fairly lacking. The following configuration file (which has been
generated from cobbler), shows that it will "Automatic boot in X
seconds", though after this time expires, nothing happens.... what I
really /need/ to happen is for it fall through to local boot rather than
hanging around on the menu screen. Does anyone have any idea how to
get this last bit working? This might be my test hardware
specifically, though I kind of doubt it.
Here's the file...
DEFAULT menu.c32
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
TIMEOUT 200
TOTALTIMEOUT 600
ONTIMEOUT local
LABEL local
MENU LABEL (local)
MENU DEFAULT
LOCALBOOT 0
LABEL fc62895
kernel /images/fc62895/vmlinuz
MENU LABEL fc62895
append ksdevice=eth0 lang= text syslog=192.168.1.99:25150
devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16438 append
initrd=/images/fc62895/initrd.img
ks=http://192.168.1.99/cobbler_track/kickstarts/fc62895/ks.cfg
I've also tried "ONTIMEOUT LOCALBOOT 0" which also doesn't work, as well
as leaving off the "ONTIMEOUT" bit and assuming the MENU DEFAULT would
do the right thing.
Provided I can't get this working, there's another decent way to make
this happen, that is slightly less usable. That's to set the DEFAULT to
"local" in the first few lines of the file, and we enable "PROMPT 1".
Then the user has 20 or so seconds to type "menu" at the pxelinux
"boot:" prompt, otherwise it would boot locally. If they type "menu",
they would get the menu. It works, but it's not quite obvious.
Anyone have any ideas on how to utilize timeouts and menu.c32 at the
same time?
Thanks,
--Michael
