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

[Nazo]

On 9/3/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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
> 

It's ok.  I do understand since I know how frustrating such things can
get.  Either way, since there's a way for me to duplicate the
functionality without problems I'm perfectly happy.  Plus I learned
something new.  I never knew you could provide the command instead of
a label like that.  I tried that and it works without a hitch.