Just to be sure, menu.c32 is a module that extends pxe boot capabilities? Is it build into the syslinux package or do I need to download it. I could not find anythng relevant on a RH AS 4 server which is my satellite box. I will gladly pass on anything if I get it working properly. Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan > Sent: 08 April 2008 16:18 > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Re: pxe menu > > Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote: > > Have a look at pxeboot (from syslinux project) and their menu.c32 ;) > > > > Regards > > Pablo > > > > Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) uses menu.c32 to generate it's > PXE menus. menu.c32 is of course very nice. I haven't found a good > way to generate submenus in though I would be very interested in this -- > for instance, if you were able to pick your cobbler distribution and > then pick profiles based on that distribution, or if the lists were very > long it might be more useful than having scrolling. > > However since menu.c32 does offer some very nice scrolling, unless your > number of entries gets very large, the need for submenus may be a non- > issue. > > Another problem you'll run into with menu.c32 is that it does not offer > a working timeout -- so once you PXE to engage the menu, the user must > choose from the menu... so in my case I default to "default", and > menu.c32 is the "menu" target -- so to pull up the menu you have to type > "menu" at the syslinux prompt before it times out to "default". > > Hopefully that helps, if you get a good working hierarchical setup with > menu.c32 I'd be interested in seeing your configuration files on that. > > --Michael > > El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 10:09 +0100, Gerrard Geldenhuis escribió: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I have been looking through the documentation to see if you can have > >> sub menus in the pxe boot menu but could not find anything that talks > >> specifically about it. I could probably adapt the function key menus > >> but would prefer to use the normal menus. Does anyone have an example > >> I could use or point me to the right documentation please. > >> > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Kickstart-list mailing list > >> Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Kickstart-list mailing list > >> Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
