[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.09, 2.10-pre1 released

[Gebhardt Thomas]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 17:20, you wrote:

Hi,

> Till such a feature comes along, you can implement the same
> functionality as follows:
>
> * Create a menu, with options corresponding to the different isolinux
> labels
> * Set pcelinux.cfg to run the menu directly without any wait.
>
> This way you get a slightly user friendly interface and the users dont
> have access to the pxelinux boot prompt.

I tried to do that 

(pxelinux.cfg:

DEFAULT mymenu.com
PROMPT 0
ONTIMEOUT ...
ONERROR ...
...
)


but still have two problems

1. I can escape the menu system and get the syslinux boot prompt with either 
"ESC" or  "arrow left" in the main menu. Did I do something wrong?

2. Can I easily configure the menu system to do something (boot from the
local disk) after a specified timeout, i.e., can I configure a noninteractive
default boot?

My intention is as follows:
I have a bunch of windows hosts, and want to supply the possibility to
boot a diskless Linux by PXE.
constraints:
1. If the user who boots the machine does nothing at all, it should boot
windows, just as before.
2. A linux user should not be able to get root privileges by supplying
additional kernel boot arguments.

Thanks, Thomas