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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 30 21:33:59 PDT 2008


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.

	-hpa




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