[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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