[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.09, 2.10-pre1 released
Murali Krishnan Ganapathy
gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Tue May 11 07:56:02 PDT 2004
Glad it helped.
- Murali
Gebhardt Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wednesday 05 May 2004 19:41, you wrote:
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>>* What your new mymenu.c should do
>>
>>print "Press any key within 5 seconds.. to active menu..."
>>clear keyboard buffer
>>wait for 5 seconds
>>if keyboard buffer is not empty
>> run "localboot" / "chain.c32 hd0 0"
>>else
>> initialise menu...
>> loop:
>> runmenu....
>> if valid choice
>> execute it
>> endif
>> goto loop
>>endif
>>
>>Clearing and checking the kbd buffer can be done through BIOS interrupts.
>>...
>>
>>
>
>thank you very much! Since I have not written assembler code since the days of
>Z80, it took me some time to get the work done (and I still have implemented
>the timeout by a simple delay loop and not by a BIOS call). But now I have a
>nice interface and cannot escape from the menu.
>
>Cheers, Thomas
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