[syslinux] pxelinux timeout problem on CentOS 5, syslinux-3.11-4

Phillip Mispagel pmispagel at vmware.com
Wed Oct 1 14:00:12 PDT 2008


Thanks dag and hpa, all is working flawlessly now with 3.72, and I've got the rpmforge repos now, so it shouldn't be an issue from here on out. :)

Regards,
Phillip

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Dag Wieers
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 07:42
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux timeout problem on CentOS 5, syslinux-3.11-4

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Phillip Mispagel wrote:
>> It was a version issue, I grabbed the menu.c32 from a newer version of syslinux and all is happy now.  Thank you.
>>
>> I am, however, having another issue.  I've started using vesamenu.c32 which is awesome; placing a company logo on the menu gives a much more professional look.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is using dos based memdisk utilities with vesamenu.c32.  vesamenu.c32 covers all text output of the kernel loading, or a diagnostic tool loading (wipedisk.img), etc.
>>
>> I've tried getting around this by making a sub menu which loads menu.c32 instead of vesamenu.c32, but vesamenu.c32 still covers the entire screen and the whole process seems to hang (the menu.c32 submenu never loads properly).
>>
>> If I set the default of the main menu to menu.c32, then the sub menu menu.c32 loads perfectly.
>>
>> Any ideas how I may accomplish getting kernel/initrd info to display if I'm using vesamenu.c32?
>>
>
> Get a newer version.  That was fixed a long time ago.  The current
> version is 3.72.

There are some fine packages for CentOS and RHEL at:

        http://packages.sw.be/syslinux/

;-)

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