[syslinux] Ontimeout in current menu seems to not work for me
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sat Sep 3 08:09:45 PDT 2005
Nazo wrote:
> 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.
>
ONTIMEOUT was completely broken in menu.c32, as in, had no effect. I
fixed it, but a side effect of the fix that I hadn't considered in
enough detail is that it breaks using LABEL references in ONTIMEOUT (you
can, however, put the actual command line there; in your case "chain.c32
hda0 2".)
The reason it "worked" for you in previous releases is that your
ONTIMEOUT statement is completely redundant.
Again, thanks a huge friggin' lot for not testing anything until I've
just released, even though I announced it almost a week in advance. Sigh.
-hpa
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