[syslinux] sub-menu's

Fri Apr 30 17:38:28 PDT 2010

I guess that would actually look like
Menu Start Dell
  Menu Start Model
    Menu Start Revision
      kick off win98.ima
    Menu End
  Menu End
Menu End

And I forgot to hash out the IBM remote support part.... NO, this is
not an ibm product :)

Matthew Holevinski

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Matthew Holevinski <eylusion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, i'm not trying to be difficult I swear I'm not, and i know you guys are
> ridiculous crazy smart, i've just been on a war bridge for like 30 hours and
> I'm super beat. I'm just trying to come up with something to help like 70
> other guys update bios's on most of our hardware models. IF there is already
> some kind of elegant auto updater for various makes and models I would be
> all about it, but until then I'll just manually modify a win98.ima for
> every bios
> and setup the autoexec.bat's to kick off the bios installers... I've
> created iso's
> for all of them already but i'm looking for a central app to kick off
> an installer
> for any make and model instead of these guys burning umpteen cd's.
>
> This is my current syslinux.cfg(isolinux.cfg) I'll hash some stuff out but
> you'll get the idea of what it looks like and what I want to add.
> syslinux.cfg  # = private
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
> DEFAULT menu.c32
> PROMPT 0
> TIMEOUT 200
> ONTIMEOUT ####
> MENU TABMSG Please contact #### Support for questions or issues
>
> MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
> MENU TITLE IBM MultiBoot Remote Support CD V1.2.8
>
> MENU COLOR screen   37;40
> MENU COLOR border   30;44
> MENU COLOR title    1;36;44
> MENU COLOR unsel    37;44
> MENU COLOR hotkey   1;37;44
> MENU COLOR sel      7;37;40
> MENU COLOR hotsel   1;7;37;40
> MENU COLOR scrollbar    30;44
> MENU COLOR tabmsg   31;40
> MENU COLOR cmdmark  1;36;40
> MENU COLOR cmdline  37;40
> MENU COLOR pwdborder    30;47
> MENU COLOR pwdheader    31;47
> MENU COLOR pwdentry 30;47
> MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40
> MENU COLOR timeout  1;37;40
>
> MENU WIDTH 80
> MENU MARGIN 10
> MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
> MENU ROWS 12
> MENU TABMSGROW 18
> MENU CMDLINEROW 18
> MENU ENDROW 24
> MENU PASSWORDROW 11
> MENU TIMEOUTROW 20
>
> LABEL ####
> MENU DEFAULT
> MENU LABEL ^1. #### PE
> BSS vista.bss
>
> LABEL hpghost
> MENU LABEL ^2. HP DC6005 GhostCast Client (Broadcom BCM5761 chipset)
> KERNEL memdisk
> append initrd=hpghost.ima
>
> LABEL memtest
> MENU LABEL ^3. MemTest86+
> KERNEL /syslinux/memtest
>
> LABEL gdisk
> MENU LABEL ^4. DBAN - Wipe Disk
> KERNEL dban
> APPEND initrd=dban.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc nuke="dwipe --autonuke
> --method dod522022m" floppy=0,16,cmos silent
>
> LABEL INPD
> MENU LABEL ^5. Initialize Primary Disk Drive
> KERNEL memdisk
> append initrd=INPD.ima
>
> LABEL win98
> MENU LABEL ^6. Win98 Boot Disk
> KERNEL memdisk
> append initrd=win98.ima
>
> LABEL RECO
> MENU LABEL ^7. RECO PointSec Recovery Tool
> KERNEL memdisk
> append initrd=reco.IMZ
>
> (THIS IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD - HYPOTHETICAL BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW
> WHAT I'M DOING)
>
> MENU START ^8. Update Bios
>
>  LABEL Dell
>    MENU START
>      LABEL Dell model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\dell\dell_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>      LABEL Dell model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\dell\dell_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>      LABEL Dell model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\dell\dell_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>    MENU END
>  LABEL HP
>    MENU START
>      LABEL HP model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\HP\HP_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>      LABEL HP model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\HP\HP_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>      LABEL HP model
>        KERNEL memdisk
>        APPEND initrd=bios\HP\HP_model\bios_revision\win98.ima(custom
> autoexec inside ima to kick off installer)
>    MENU END
> MENU END
>
> LABEL boothd
> MENU LABEL ^9. Boot First Hard Drive
> COM32 chain.c32
> APPEND hd1 swap
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Matthew Holevinski
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 04/30/2010 03:37 PM, Matthew Holevinski wrote:
>>> I copied a MENU START section from another example isolinux.cfg that
>>> when i run it separately from the example I get the > character on the
>>> side which allows me to change to another menu screen and look at
>>> submenu items.... when i copy and paste that Menu Start section into
>>> my current isolinux.cfg, i don't get the > on the side.... I get all
>>> the sub menu items sandwiched into my current menu screen. I guess
>>> that's what I'll be working on over the weekend... Apparently my usage
>>> of menu start works when it's by itself but not in my current
>>> implementation of menu.c32 ... I suppose it's some sort of Menu option
>>> i've hijacked in order to get my menu's all nice and pretty on mine...
>>> I wish i could just like append initrd=dell.cfg or something and just
>>> pull up a new menu screen... but i don't know how to do anything like
>>> that...
>>>
>>> Matt
>>
>> Make sure your Syslinux is at least version 3.62 and that your .c32
>> files matches your core.
>>
>>        -hpa
>>
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