[Fwd: Re: [syslinux] Comboot Menu]

[Aaron McSorley]

This format looks good.
It will be a great compliment to pxelinux.
Thank you very much for jumping into this!

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:

> Thanks for the comment. The next pass for a file format ...
> 
> ------ FILE BEGINS -----
> # Comment lines
> 
> [menu]
> item="text to display"
> status="status line text"
> action= SUBMENU | INACTIVE | whatever
> submenu= <number>
> data="arbitrary string"
> 
> item="text to display"
> status="status line text"
> action= SUBMENU | INACTIVE | RUN | EXIT
> submenu= <number>
> data="arbitrary string"
> ....
> 
> [menu]
> ....
> 
> ----- FILE ENDS ------
> 
> The number of menu's and the size of menus are computed. But there is a
> limit on how much they can be. This limit can be changed by modifying a
> couple of #define's at appropriate places. The same goes for all the 
> decoration: All attributes, fillchars,.... are all #defines. Just change 
> them and you are all set. In case anybody wants this to change from menu 
> system to menu system, then they can modify the code appropriately.
> 
> Now each item has five pieces of information. The item and status are obvious.
> action is SUBMENU or INACTIVE or RUN or EXIT, the menu code only identifies
> SUBMENU and INACTIVE and ignores everything else. If it is INACTIVE the obvious
> thing happens. If it is submenu, then choosing that option goes to the menu
> number defined in the submenu field. The data field is not used by the system 
> at all. 
> 
> The intended use is that it will contain the name of the kernel to run. So once 
> the menu system returns a pointer to this datastructure, the user will see that
> the action is RUN and execute the kernel specified by the data field.
> 
> - Murali
> 
> Marc Haisenko wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday 20 January 2004 16:34, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Thanks for your reply. Here is my first attempt at a file format for
> >>describing the menu.
> >>
> >>menus      5 # I am declaring 5 menus numbered 0,1,2,3,4
> >>menusize 10 # All of them have atmost 10 items
> >>
> 
> >>Are these two necessary ? Can't you compute them from the rest of the file ?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>startmenu 1  # The main menu is menu number 1 (is this needed? or should
> >>I just assume menu 0)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I would default to 0 but having such an option would be a nice thing.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Any comments?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Looks like very powerfull and nice to me ! Now the next step would be 
> >customization stuff like menu colors ;-)
> >
> >  
> >
> >>- Murali
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >C'ya,
> >	Marc
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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