[syslinux] [5.11-pre1] SYSAPPEND does not work (IPAPPEND alias works)

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Jun 13 19:06:58 PDT 2013


On 06/13/2013 10:15 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
> <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> While testing PXE booting, I decided to change IPAPPEND to the new
>> SYSAPPEND and does not work: nothing is appended to command line.
>>
>> I tested using menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32, same issue.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> SERIAL 0 38400
>> UI boot/syslinux/vesamenu.c32
>>
>>
>> LABEL arch64_nbd
>> MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) (NBD)
>> LINUX boot/x86_64/vmlinuz
>> INITRD boot/x86_64/archiso.img
>> APPEND archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201306
>> archiso_nbd_srv=${pxeserver}
>> SYSAPPEND 3
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> the simple menu system, (vesa)menu.c32, has its own configuration
> parser.  Did you try the LABEL outside of the simple menu system?
> 

Good point. Yes it works. :) starting using the label from the boot: prompt.



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