[syslinux] Problem with menu.c32]

Paul Whittaker whitpa at velocitynet.com.au
Thu Aug 30 17:24:16 PDT 2007


Michael Jarka wrote, On 31/08/07 01:58 AM:

>
>I'm trying to use menu.c32 to boot different kickstart files.
>The problem I have is regardless of what menu item I select, it always uses
>the client.cfg (default entry) even if I select one of the others.
>I have removed the DEFAULT from that entry and it still always
>uses the ckient.cfg kickstart file
>
>Any ideas.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Jarka
>
>
>default menu.c32
>prompt 0
>timeout 300
>
>MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu, Press [esc] for boot prompt
>
>LABEL Fedora 6 Client
>MENU DEFAULT Fedora 6 Client (default)
>KERNEL fc6/vmlinuz
>APPEND initrd=fc6/initrd.img linux=i686 ramdisk_size=256000 
>ks=nfs:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/kickstart/fc6/client.cfg
>
>LABEL Fedora 6 Client (Hard Drive < 30 GB)
>MENU LABEL Fedora 6 Client (Hard Drive < 30 GB)
>KERNEL fc6/vmlinuz
>APPEND initrd=fc6/initrd.img linux=i686 ramdisk_size=256000 
>ks=nfs:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/kickstart/fc6/sdclient.cfg
>
>  
>
[snip]

"MENU DEFAULT" isn't a label, it's just a marker.  You must have a "MENU 
LABEL" as well.  Try:

LABEL Fedora 6 Client
MENU LABEL Fedora 6 Client (default)
MENU DEFAULT
KERNEL fc6/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=fc6/initrd.img linux=i686 ramdisk_size=256000 ks=nfs:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/kickstart/fc6/client.cfg





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