[syslinux] Giving misleading information

[Brown, Larry]

I have removed getty and have redirected the console to /dev/null and that
leaves me with a blank screen after...
SYSLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25 Copyright (c) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
boot:
Loading vmlinuz.........................................
Loading
initrd.img..................................................................
...........
..............................................
Ready.
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.


So I am close, but they can give a boot parameter to set the console back to
tty again using the prompt.  I also need to find a way to eliminate the
Uncompressing Linux... line.  

Larry S. Brown
Network Engineer
Nielsen Media Research

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Murali Krishnan Ganapathy [mailto:gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu] 
Sent:	Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:57 AM
To:	Brown, Larry
Subject:	Re: [syslinux] Giving misleading information

To disable additional boot parameters look at the "allowoptions" option 
in your {sys,pxe,iso}linux.cfg file. On the other hand, if you dont want 
to the user to see a "boot" prompt, then you can write your own COMBOOT 
code, or use the menu utility included with SYSLINUX.

SYSLINUX is a boot loader, once it loads the OS the user specifies, it 
has no control at all. So all the misleading should be done by the OS in 
question. Perhaps you are looking for one of these solutions?

1. boot into linux which immeadiately runs windows inside vmware?
2. you can run windows which immeadiately runs coLinux.
3. you can run linux with a windows like window manager.

- Murali

Brown, Larry wrote:
> Is there a way to change the boot message to give the user the impression
> that he is running some other operating system and disable the ability to
> change boot parameters?
> 
> Larry.
> 
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