[syslinux] Issue with timeout option?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Mar 19 14:38:38 PDT 2009


Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20090318 om 21:09 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
>> Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>>> Confirmed that the following worked  with 3.73 and before
>>> ONTIMEOUT bz28.7
>>>
>>> Tried ESC  to boot: prompt and bz28.7 worked with 3.74pre5
>>> So, it only seems to be with the timeout option. What I eventually found to 
>>> work was this with the 3.74pre5.
>>> ONTIMEOUT bz28.7 initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
>>>
>>> With that in the isolinux.cfg it will correctly load the timeout kernel.. 
>>> Since it worked with 3.73 is this a design change or what. Is this because the 
>>> label and kernel name are the same?
>>>  
>> Could you please post your entire configuration file?
> 
> The configuration file is
>  at http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-March/011795.html
> 

Ah, sorry.

	-hpa




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