[syslinux] ONTIMEOUT LOCALBOOT -1 and menu.c32 -

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nazo wrote:
> 
> Just checking, a while back I had a problem with the ontimeout and you
> said it wasn't correctly working with lables and that one had to
> manually specify the command line (eg kernel followed by append) for
> the ontimeout statement.  I haven't been digging through changelogs
> (and, honestly, I'm not even sure where they are if there are any) so
> I wonder if that's been fixed yet?  I know it was kind of a low
> priority since it still would work if you manually provided the entire
> command line instead of a label name.  Personally, I've been too lazy
> to really test and just assumed it wasn't fixed since it's not really
> that much more work to copy and paste the command line into the
> ontimeout statement and I rarely change my default bootup (which
> usually consists simply of just a chainload of the next partition, so
> copy and paste is almost more work than typing it out again.)

That's true for the simple menu system.  For localboot, one would have 
to type e.g. "ontimeout .localboot -1", but that doesn't work in the CLI.

Thanks for refreshing my memory, I had totally forgotten.

	-hpa