[syslinux] autoboot countdown timer [now works but its with 3.53-pre5]

[Peter]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>   
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>     
>>> Jesse W. Hathaway wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> The countdown timer for pxelinux works correctly but the graphical
>>>> display just show 0 during the entire countdown. I tried setting
>>>> a custom autoboot msg but the result was the same. Is there anything
>>>> else I can look into?
>>>>
>>>>         
> URK!
>
> 3.60-pre* are development snapshots (non-release-candidates) and really 
> shouldn't be used.  Could someone please switch them back to the 
> 3.52/3.53-pre* branch for the time being?
>
>   
>> Debian-live is a offical debian projekt for building 
>> live-cd/usb/net-boot images.
>>
>> I just made some tests with 6 builds with different settings in the
>> syslinux.cfg file in case something was wrong in the generated one.
>> And I also can't get the timer to countdown. This was using both
>> menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.
>> It just says 0 s but the countdown works just as Jesse said.
>>
>> I also tried the MENU AUTOBOOT message to see if that could help, but
>> replacing it didnt help.
>>     
>
> Please try 3.53-pre5 and see if that helps.
It works with 3.53-pre5.

I cc debian-live also.

regards
//Peter

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