[syslinux] Problem with PXE, menu, and ipappend

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 24 09:51:57 PDT 2009


Chris Adams wrote:
> I have been using PXELINUX with the "ipappend 2" option for a long time.
> To make things a little more user friendly, I decided to set up menus
> (text menus with menu.c32), but they wouldn't work (blank screen and
> corrupted menu flashes by when you hit a key).
> 
> I went through all kinds of combinations of options, and finally found
> that commenting out the "ipappend 2" line fixed all the problems.  It
> would appear there is some corruption when combining the menus and that
> option.
> 
> This is with syslinux 3.75 (from Fedora 11).

The blank screen happened in that version when the menu file was blank.

It's hard to know exactly what broke without seeing the full configuration.

Also note that the current version is 3.82.

	-hpa




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