[syslinux] Comments sought on the graphical menu infrastructure

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 20 16:05:59 PDT 2006


Ryan McLean wrote:
> Actually I would like to see the cfg file for the vesa menu seperated from 
> the current cfg file.
> 
> I use PXELinux and have alot of menu options (i have nearly all redhad 
> trees since version 3.0 for all Archs) so i have had to use multiple menu 
> files for those so updating to vesamenu means editing all my menu files 
> and proving options for it..
> 
> If you could add a parameter for the location of the gfx (so if not 
> defined, will 1st look in its cfg file if not there then uses defaults) 
> something like the syntax below:
> 
> KERNEL vesamenu.c32
> APPEND conf/x64-4.conf gfx/default.conf
> 
> Other than that looks really well good job.
> 

This is an excellent idea and, in fact, very easy to implement.  As a 
result I have implemented it and made it available as 3.31-pre1.  Please 
test it out and see if it does what you need.

	-hpa




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