[syslinux] Prompting the user for input in the PXE boot menu?

[Samuli Seppänen]

Hi,

I would like to get some data from the user in the PXE boot menu before
launching OS install. Something along these lines:

Please enter hostname for the system:      <user types the hostname>
Please enter harddisk encryption password: <user types the password>

The values thus obtained would be fed to the kernel command-line and
from there to the OS installer. In our use-case it is not possible to
obtain the above information from an external source (e.g. DHCP) or to
determine it programmatically.

I tried LUA scripting, but the syslinux implementation of LUA seemed to
be missing input support.

Any pointers?

Samuli