[syslinux] IPAPPEND breaks menu module

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/25/2009 11:47 AM, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Just spent a few hours going mad(der) wondering why my menu config
> wasn't working.
> 
> It looks like the change in 3.74 ("Add IPAPPEND to com32 modules,
> especially needed for linux.c32") breaks menu.c32 (and possibly other
> modules) since they aren't expecting it.
> 
> In particular menu.c32 uses that as an optional menu file, it then
> complains "Initial menu has no LABEL entries!" (note that this isn't
> the same as another bug which was fixed w.r.t menu initialisation).
> Running v3.83.
> 
> Minimal config to reproduce the problem:
> UI menu.c32 
> IPAPPEND 3
> 
> LABEL localboot
> 
> (Just stick a "#" in front of IPAPPEND and it all works again)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS: I'm not subscribed but will be checking the archives :-)

Okay... not many people use a global IPAPPEND, so I can see how that
would break things.

Perhaps the right answer is to not add it to the command line, but make
it possible for the com32 module to do it itself.

	-hpa