[syslinux] Vesa menu option suggestion

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 29 19:49:01 PDT 2006


Ryan McLean wrote:
> Appoligies for the amount of posts in one go earlier but i seem to keep 
> getting caught in your filter and i thought it was notes so i tried 
> thunderbird and it still stuck.
> 
> Anyhow I like the Text Endtext syntax, but could i ask that again we have 
> this help text in a seperate file and include with MENU HELP <pathToHelp>
> 
> I know i seem anal about keeping things in seperate files and to be honest 
> i am a bit i hate my menu files gettting cluttered with options and 
> labels.
> 
> I think that the afore mentioned include would again be of the same 
> benifit as seperating out the gfx cfg file.
> 
> Would it also be possible to tie text to the menu labels?
> eg
> 
> LABEL latest
>         MENU LABEL ^Latest Release
>         KERNEL knl/vmlinuz-rhws44-x86
>         APPEND initrd=img/initrd-rhws44-x86.img
> 
> 
> 
> @DESC latest
> This is the latest Release of XXXX. Choose to install.
> @END
> 

Well, at least I was talking about help text per menu labels...

	-hpa




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