[syslinux] sub menus / multiple distros on usb key w/ syslinux
J.H.
warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
Thu Dec 4 12:11:35 PST 2008
Take a look at how PXE Knife does it's menuing. Beyond that your distro
would need to know how to handle a boot time argument to do the
switching for the gui environments (gui vs. non-gui is easy as it's
usually just the selection of a run level)
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:53 -0700, Joe Mocantish wrote:
> being a complete novice with syslinux, I was hoping someone here could
> help me out.
>
> I have a USB Key that I have "broken" into two areas. General storage in
> the "back" and space for several live distributions on the front. What I
> need to do now is figure out how to make a syslinux.cfg file that would
> let me pick which one to boot at startup time.
>
> Basically, I want a menu that works like this:
>
> Distro 1
> |---Boot With X
> |---Boot No X
> Distro 2
> |--- Boot w/ Enlightenment X server
> |--- Boot w/ KDE4
> |--- Boot text mode
>
>
> etc....
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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