[syslinux] Request for SYSLINUX 3.21

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Aug 26 17:01:39 PDT 2006


Jim Cromie wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Try "strings pxelinux.* | grep ^PXELINUX" instead.

> 
> 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)
> 

That was changed based on what I perceived as mailing list consensus 
between 3.11-pre10 and 3.11-pre11.

The "totaltimeout" option replaces the old behaviour.

	-hpa




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