[syslinux] Re: Boot menu?

Jason Gerfen jason.gerfen at scl.utah.edu
Tue Sep 27 10:19:30 PDT 2005


Duh, nevermind found the references I needed.  Sorry for the post.

Jason Gerfen wrote:

> I am not sure if anyone has attempted to accomplish this or not and I 
> have been googling around looking for some examples of using the 
> PXE/TFTP/DHCP configuration to display a boot menu based off a 
> function key press.
>
> ex. DHCP gets network address
>      user presses F5 and PXE boot menu appears
>      user then has a set of options for local boot or loading a new 
> image file
>
> Any help, examples are appreciated.  Here is what I am *attempting* to 
> get to work
>
> [tftproot/pxelinux.cfg/default]
> #default LOCAL
> #prompt 0
> #timeout 3
>
> #MENU TITLE PXE Menu
>
> #MENU LABEL label
>
> #       LABEL LOCAL
> #               MENU LABEL ^Local Boot
> #               LOCALBOOT 0
>
> #       LABEL WindowsImages
> #               MENU LABEL ^WindowsImages
> #               APPEND initrd=WindowsBoot.img
>
> #       LABEL LinuxImages
> #               MENU LABEL ^LinuxImages
> #                APPEND initrd=PXELinux.img
>


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Jason Gerfen

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