[syslinux] Ontimeout in current menu seems to not work for me

Nazo nazosan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 07:03:27 PDT 2005


Ok, this is weird.  I have no idea why, but, ontimeout seems to have
stopped working for me.  I like the new layout with the countdown
timer on the bottom, but, when I see the timer go down to 0, the menu
just reloads.  I've checked and as nearly as I can tell there are no
error in the configuration, including the label in the ontimeout
command being typed correctly.  Just in case though, I'll post the
configuration so maybe someone can see if I made a mistake somewhere. 
I really don't think I did, and I had no troubles with the last
version I was using, which I think was just the previous one right
before this one (one somewhere around 3.10-pres to be honest.)  I like
the new layout though, it's just, well, more comfortable is the best I
could describe since it no longer takes up the full screen and all
that stuff, plus the visible timer is a nice bonus.


syslinux.cfg:
DEFAULT menu.c32
ONTIMEOUT windows
TIMEOUT 150
PROMPT 0

SAY -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAY SYSLINUX Boot Options:
SAY -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAY hda1, hda2, hda5, geexbox, geexbox-debug, sysrescue, dosdisk,
mprime, pqmagic
SAY tomsrtbt, windows, dos, dossafe, dos622
SAY -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

MENU TITLE Boot Menu

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL ^Windows/DOS
        MENU DEFAULT
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hda0 2

LABEL geexbox
        MENU LABEL ^GeeXBoX
        KERNEL geexbox0.98
        APPEND initrd=geexinit.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw init=linuxrc
boot=hda1 splash=silent vga=0x312 ramdisk_size=16384

LABEL sysrescue
        MENU LABEL ^System Rescue CD
        KERNEL vmlinuz1
        APPEND root=/dev/hda6 vga=788 setkmap=41 acpi=on ar_nowait

LABEL dos
        MENU LABEL ^DOS (Windows 98 SE version)
        KERNEL memdisk
        APPEND initrd=dosfull.gz floppy

LABEL gendos
	MENU LABEL Generic DOS Bootdisk (Win98SE version)
	KERNEL memdisk
	APPEND initrd=gendos.gz floppy

LABEL dossafe
        MENU LABEL DOS Safe Mode
        KERNEL memdisk
        APPEND initrd=dossafe.gz floppy

LABEL dos622
        MENU LABEL DOS ^6.22
        KERNEL memdisk
        APPEND initrd=dos622.gz floppy

LABEL mprime
        MENU LABEL Prime^95
        KERNEL mprime
        APPEND initrd=mpinit.gz rw ramdisk_size=5325

LABEL tomsrtbt
        MENU LABEL Toms RTBT
        KERNEL memdisk
        APPEND initrd=tomsrtbt.gz floppy

LABEL pqmagic
        MENU LABEL ^Partition Magic 8
        KERNEL memdisk
        APPEND initrd=pqmagic.gz floppy

LABEL ide0
        MENU LABEL Boot ide^0
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 0

LABEL ide1
        MENU LABEL Boot ide^1
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 0

LABEL ide2
        MENU LABEL Boot ide^2
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd2 0

LABEL ide3
        MENU LABEL Boot ide^3
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd3 0

LABEL floppy
        MENU LABEL Boot ^Floppy
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND fd0




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