[syslinux] vesamenu samples?

Murali (முரளி கணபதி) murali at google.com
Wed Jan 24 15:18:30 PST 2007


If you use the advanced menu, you can have a context sensitive help
system and some other advanced features. However, it does not support
graphics or serial consoles and the menu needs to be created from a
configuration file (different syntax from isolinux.cfg).

- Murali

On 1/24/07, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
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>    I've  been  using  the  standard  isolinux.cfg file for some time with
>    great  success. Have it currently display a file at the beginning with
>    a  little  .lss  graphic file, and some basic info then with the image
>    names  and  info.  Also have 4 of the help files linked to the F1 - F4
>    keys.
>
>    But  I just had a number of emails back and forth with a user that was
>    getting  kernel panics. It eventually turned out that the user was not
>    typing the bzImagexx kernel name with the capital I.
>
>    I  have found some samples of the vesamenu configuration, and was able
>    to create png file that displays the graphic info at the bottom of the
>    screen  versus  the  top,  but the text info isn't there, but could be
>    added  to  the  png file with some effort. The help files and using F?
>    keys  doesn't  do  anything.  I'm  thinking the cat.c32 would probable
>    allow  one  to display the files in a simlar format, but have not been
>    able  to  find  a sample of how that would be done in the isolinux.cfg
>    file.
>
>    The  G4L project that I currently handle has about 3,000 downloads per
>    month  from  the  freshmeat  and  sourceforge  sites, and all kinds of
>    users. I'd like to make it as easy as possible to avoid problems. This
>    vesamenu does elimanate the problem with entering the kernel name, but
>    at the moment, it looses the help info.
>
>    I  also scanned the over 3000 emails I have in my syslinux folder, and
>    relooked at all the messages that had vesamenu in them.
>
>    The isolinux.cfg file that I've created so far it here.
>
>    ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/vesamenu.isolinux.cfg
>
>    Working  on  the next release of the G4L, and have just placed two new
>    versions  with  the  latest  2.6.20  rc5 -git 2 kernels in addition to
>    older ones.
>
>    ISO using standard isolinux.cfg
>
>    ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l22beta-01-22-2007t.iso
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>    ISO using the vesamenu isolinux.cfg
>
>    ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l22beta-01-23-2007-vesa.iso
>
>    Perhaps  there  are  examples of implementing the help like files with
>    the vesamenu, but I wasn't able to find it.
>
>    Thanks.
>
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-- 
Murali

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