[syslinux] menu.c32 - Return from sub-menu

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Dec 15 09:21:46 PST 2005


Cristi Mitrana wrote:
> 
>  Using a complex menu can achieve this. You can really have menus with
> submenus, see the complex example in the menu subdir of the sources.
> 
>  Hijacking the thread a bit, I noticed that when using pxelinux and
> putting a entry like this on the append line:
>  append initrd=://dir1/initrd.img other_parameters
> makes pxelinux requesing the 'pxe-prefix/di1/initrd.img' file instead
> of the desired behaviour  of requesting /dir1/initrd.img'. It works if
> I modify the line like this:
>    append initrd=tftp_server://dir1/initrd.img other_parameters
> 
>  I tried to track this down but did not succeed in understanding why
> is this not working, it seems that mangle_name/unmangle_name do their
> job well, but I still can't understand why it's not working in this
> particular example.
> 

Your syntax is wrong, it should be initrd=::/dir1/initrd.img

It could still be buggy, but that's the syntax used.

	-hpa




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