[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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