[syslinux] Request for SYSLINUX 3.21

[Jim Cromie]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have officially released SYSLINUX 3.20:
>
>   

1st - a tiny 'feature' request

can you bury a version string into pxelinux.0 such that this (or similar)
returns something useful ?

[jimc at harpo boot]$ strings pxelinux.* | grep -i vers
PXE API version is
PXE API version is
PXE API version is
PXE API version is

btw, the multiples are due to:

]$ ll pxelinux.*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    20 Aug 22 21:55 pxelinux.0 -> 
pxelinux.0-3.20pre19
-rw-rw-r--  1 jimc jimc 13148 Sep  4  2005 pxelinux.0-3.11
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 13204 Aug 22 21:54 pxelinux.0-3.20pre19
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 13148 Jan 22  2006 pxelinux.0-3.20-pre8



2nd -  I use a menu.c32 setup, as follows

SERIAL  0 115200
CONSOLE 0
DEFAULT menu.c32
PROMPT  0
TIMEOUT 50
IPAPPEND 0

LABEL   H 2.6.18-rc4-sk
  MENU LABEL    ^h.  2.6.18-rc4-sk
  KERNEL        vmlinuz-2.6.18-rc4-sk
  APPEND        console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
ip=::::soekris:eth0 panic=5



If I select a boot-target, the timeout from 5 seconds stops, and stays 
stopped.
Formerly it ran a 2nd timeout, and returned to the default if the 
selection is not
completed, ie no <enter>

IIRC, you wanted the former behavior, since noise on serial line could 
potentially
freeze the system by waiting for a completed selection.
Current behavior is also true for pre19, and pre8.

If the old restart behavior is not now enabled by another <COMMAND>,
I'll do a binary search backwards (pls guess at a known-good as a 
starting point)

thx