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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Sep 3 18:00:32 PDT 2005


Nazo wrote:
> 
> Well, I had been using it a while even before I noticed that.  So, I'm
> sorry I didn't know about it, but, I'd always just hit enter when it
> got to that step.  I don't normally wait for it to time out, and, in
> fact, usually don't even WANT it to do that and am considering making
> it a longer delay (only reason I do is since this thing is kind of
> half htpc I want it to be possible to boot and use it without a
> keyboard on rare occasions, especially if I ever get a remote.)
> 
> Anyway, putting the actual command in there does kind of make sense,
> so I see no harm in just doing that for now.

Actually in your situation, you can just drop ONTIMEOUT, since it's the 
same as your MENU DEFAULT.

> Oh, and Bernd, according to the documentation, you put MENU DEFAULT to
> specify which label you want to be the default.  Don't know if maybe
> that could affect where the cursor starts or if it is just another
> redundant command, I just used it to be thorough and it doesn't really
> matter either way to me as long as it works.  Wasn't really necessary,
> but, I find that being thorough often works out better in the
> long-run, if nothing else just because it's one more command I
> remember further down the road.  ^_^

First of all, I'm sorry for my outburst; I'm just a bit burned out at 
the moment in case that wasn't obvious... anyway, it'd be an easy fix, 
but I need a break from syslinux for a while to make some forward 
progress on klibc.

	-hpa




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