[syslinux] PROMPT problem [SOLVED]

[Jason Gerfen]

Nevermind, I found the problem.

NOESCAPE 0 vs. 1 solved it.

Jason Gerfen wrote:

> I have set the PROMPT argument to equal 1 which according to the 
> documentation should ALWAYS display the boot: prompt, however after 
> updating to syslinux-3.11 to resolve problems with not being able to 
> select menu options from the menu.c32 I am now unable to get the 
> display prompt prior to the menu appearing.  It automaticly displays 
> the menu vs. requiring a keypress.  Here is the default config file 
> contents, any help is appreciated.
>
> DEFAULT MyMenu
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 15
> ONTIMEOUT BootLocalDisk
> ALLOWOPTIONS 0
> NOESCAPE 1
>
> MENU MASTER PASSWD <password_omitted>
>
> MENU TITLE Bootable Options:
>
> LABEL MyMenu
>        MENU HIDE
>        KERNEL pxelinux.cfg/menu.c32
>
> LABEL BootLocalDisk
>        MENU LABEL ^BootLocalDisk
>        localboot 0
>
> LABEL HardWareDiagnostics
>        MENU LABEL ^HardWareDiagnostics
>        KERNEL pxelinux.cfg/memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=pxelinux.cfg/windows/hwdiag.img
>
> LABEL WindowsBootDisk
>        MENU LABEL ^WindowsBootDisk
>        KERNEL pxelinux.cfg/memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=pxelinux.cfg/windows/bootdisk.img
>
> LABEL SuSELinux
>        MENU LABEL ^SuSELinux
>        KERNEL pxelinux.cfg/memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=pxelinux.cfg/linux/suse.img
>


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