[syslinux] pxelinux and image selection?

[Marcel Ritter]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Josef Siemes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Marcel Ritter <Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de> schrieb am 07.06.02 02:49:13:
> > I've been working with pxelinux for quite some time now, and I'd like to
> > use PXE and a simple kind of selection menu (like syslinux does).
> > 
> > But I couldn't get it to work. I can enter several "label" sections to
> > my pxelinux.cfg/<something> but it'll never ask, just boot the
> > first/default one ...
> > 
> > Is this currently supported at all? Or did I miss something?
> 
> which version of syslinux are you using for the boot menu? Is this a special version?
> E.g. Suse is using a highly patched version of syslinux.
> 
> AFAIK there's nothing like a 'menu' in syslinux, only the possiblity to have some 
> 'boot:'-prompt and to display some boot image (which can have some instructions
> on what to do here). The same is possible with pxelinux.

I had a stupid config error in my pxelinux.cfg files - my fault.
Works fine now.

But there's still one question:

Is it possible to use shortcut keys to load a certain image?

Something like:

Press 1 for option one
Press 2 for option two


Something similar is implemented for the help pages - so I guess it should
not be too hard ...

> Regards,
> 
> Josef

Ciao,
  Marcel
> 
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