Michael DeHaan wrote: > Michael DeHaan wrote: >> Matt S Unix Administrator wrote: > .. snip ... > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools I've had this same issue with the timeout, it never counts down.
