[syslinux] menu module behaviour for menu exit

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 8 12:01:26 PDT 2009


Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking for a way to have a submenu go back to the previous menu 
> when you use Escape inside the submenu. Or to return back to a menu when 
> you return from a com32 entry (eg. kbdmap, hdt or rosh).
> 
> I had hoped something like this worked:
> 
> 
> In this case I expected Escape inside the Submenu to automatically go to 
> the main menu, but instead it went to the 'top' menu, which contains 
> both the Main menu and the Submenu.
> 
>  From the documentation the "menu exit" statement is used as an action 
> to a label to go back to another menu. Seems to be the same as "menu 
> goto" (except that it looks different in the menu itself).
> 
> But I am looking for a way to return to the previous menu when pressing 
> Escape, or when a com32 module returns back to syslinux.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve what I want to do ?
> 

No, and I think it's too confusing.

Just move your "main" menu entries to the top level.

	-hpa




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