[syslinux] "menu quit" entry causing prompt to freeze

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Apr 28 15:16:38 PDT 2009


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> 
> I just tried such an entry in my config using pxelinux and since this label
> doesn't have a kernel name set pxelinux jumps here to local_boot and
> tries to boot
> from local disk. It doesn't matter if the label is called "exit" or "xyz".
> Does local boot work from isolinux on that system?
> 

Clearly the handling of an empty label (which this is from the point of
view of the CLI) is broken.  It's a failure case and as such hasn't
gotten much testing.

	-hpa

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