[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[H. Peter Anvin]

Josef Siemes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> schrieb am 01.12.03 08:34:14:
> 
>>Also, anything else for 2.08 (unfixed bugs or wanted features) please 
>>speak up now...
> 
> I've asked some while ago for some method to not allow additional parameters on
> the syslinux command line. Especially in pxelinux this would be useful in connection
> with the 'implicit' command, to only allow the labels & parameters defined in the pxelinux
> config file. So if someone enters 'linux init=/bin/sh' the 'linux' label and its parameters 
> would  be used, and the 'init=/bin/sh' isn't appended to the command line. 'implicit 2'
> would be some parameter to implement this.
> 
> Maybe this is useful for syslinux & isolinux also, but there's not much possibility to change 
> the config file on a read-only cd-rom ...
> 

I'll consider this.  It's actually not that straightforward to do, but I 
can see why you'd want this and I can probably figure out some way of 
making it work.

	-hpa