[syslinux] [Bug]: Extlinux needs 1 minute before boot menu is shown
Martin Stolpe
berti.boeller at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 28 16:11:38 PDT 2010
On Saturday 28 August 2010 00:01:47 Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:13, Martin Stolpe
>
> <berti.boeller at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 1) What version of the Syslinux package are you using? Are you using
> the official version? Have you tried this with the latest official
> version (4.02; which should be ready to go from the tar/zip file)?
I'm using 4.02 from the official repositories:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/syslinux/
> 2) You should use the UI directive for vesamenu.c32. This allows you
> to set a different default for the menu (unless overridden with MENU
> DEFAULT).
I've tried it with the UI directive and without vesamenu.c32/menu.c32 it still
the same. Here's is my complete extlinux.conf which I currently use to boot:
# UI vesamenu.c32
DEFAULT arch_custom
# PROMPT 0
# MENU TITLE Arch Linux
# MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
# TIMEOUT 50
# MENU WIDTH 78
# MENU MARGIN 4
# MENU ROWS 5
# MENU VSHIFT 10
# MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
# MENU TABMSGROW 11
# MENU CMDLINEROW 11
# MENU HELPMSGROW 16
# MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29
# Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu
# MENU COLOR border 30;44 #40ffffff #a0000000 std
# MENU COLOR title 1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
# MENU COLOR sel 7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
# MENU COLOR unsel 37;44 #50ffffff #a0000000 std
# MENU COLOR help 37;40 #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
# MENU COLOR timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std
# MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
# MENU COLOR msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #a0000000 std
# MENU COLOR tabmsg 31;40 #30ffffff #00000000 std
LABEL arch
# MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (i686)
KERNEL vmlinuz26
APPEND initrd=kernel26.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0ff4c04f-c05c-4662-
b648-06f05b0ead32 ro resume=swap:/dev/disk/by-
uuid/73ab1690-3e03-4385-80d1-7c05f507c509
LABEL arch_custom
# MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (custom kernel)
KERNEL vmlinuz26-kms
APPEND initrd=kernel26-kms.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0ff4c04f-c05c-4662-
b648-06f05b0ead32 ro resume=swap:/dev/disk/by-
uuid/73ab1690-3e03-4385-80d1-7c05f507c509
LABEL windows
# MENU LABEL Windows
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd1 2
# http://www.memtest.org/
LABEL memtest
# MENU LABEL Run Memtest86+ (RAM test)
KERNEL memtest86+/memtest.bin
# http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/x86test/
#LABEL x86test
#MENU LABEL Run x86test (CPU test)
#KERNEL /boot/x86test
LABEL reboot
# MENU LABEL Reboot
KERNEL reboot.c32
# ONTIMEOUT arch_custom
>
> 3) Have you tried without vesamenu.c32 or your background? It's
> possible that disk I/O, VESA initialization and/or decoding of
> splash.png is extremely slow. I'd suspect one of these is the
> culprit.
See above
> Nice, clean and unique labels. That's always a good sign. "# " for
> comments. Also nice. I would also assume that it's just email
> wrapping the above lines (and each append is really only 1 long line
> in the config file).
Yes, your assumption is right. The append lines are only 1 long line in my
config.
Thanks for your feedback. To sum up: although I'm not using any graphical menu
to boot there's still the 1 minute delay before extlinux continues to boot.
Greetings,
Martin
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