[syslinux] ONTIMEOUT and menu

ganapathy murali krishnan gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Fri May 14 11:08:52 PDT 2004


Try putting the "prompt 1" to ensure that you get a boot prompt at all.
Using a nice combination of  default, onerror, ontimeout and my autoboot 
COMBOOT code along with the COMBOOT menu, one can do some really nice stuff.

- Murali

Aaron McSorley wrote:

>Maybe I missed something here.
>What I want to happen is PXE boot on a timeout will boot to 
>the hard drive. But, what happens is my comboot menu, which is default,
>loads right away and the ontimeout only happens when I escape out of 
>the menu. 
>
>My pxelinux.cfg/default:
>
>
>default menu
>timeout 100
>ontimeout localboot
>
># The Main Menu
>label menu
>        kernel mainmenu.com
>        append keeppxe
>
># Boot To Local Drive
>label localboot
>        LOCALBOOT 0
>
>
>
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