[syslinux] Change message after timeout

[Sergey Vlasov]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:02:26AM -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:20, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
> > I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
> > but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.
> 
> Not to my knowledge.  SAY is executed by the core while
> reading/paesing the config file only.  You could wrie a COM32 module
> that displays a message then executes a command line (like the
> ifXXX.c32 and cmd.c32 modules).

There is a way to achieve this without a custom .c32 module - just
make the menu entry load a separate CONFIG file, where you can use SAY
and DISPLAY before booting the real entry specified there in DEFAULT.
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