[syslinux] ONTIMEOUT and menu
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri May 14 12:27:15 PDT 2004
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.
>
As long as you're in the menu, from syslinux' perspective you're running
a program, and no timeouts apply (heck, syslinux doesn't even have control.)
There probably should be a way to pass a timeout to the menu as a
command-line option, instead of having to recompile the menu.
-hpa
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