[syslinux] Menus, choices and optional parameters

Luis Correia buga at loide.net
Fri May 29 08:21:10 PDT 2009


H. Peter,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:42, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Luis Correia wrote:
>>
>> thanks for all of your inputs.
>>
>> We have opted for a long help explanation and some screen captures to
>> guide the users.
>>
>> The real need for user input will affect about 15% of the
>> installations, so it is bearable.
>>
>
> By the way, given the rather small number of possibilities you have to
> deal with, you could also just make a really long menu -- possibly a
> submenu, and put your disclaimer text as TEXT HELP on the entry to that
> submenu.
>
>        -hpa

Your da men!

The idea of having a submenu with all possible options works flawlessly.
(it even worked with a large file 41k)

To avoid any errors I wrote a script to generate the file.

thank you lots of !


Luis Correia




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