[syslinux] PXELINUX menu is not displayed at start-up

[Lindgren Daniel]

> I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a 
> virtual machine using Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to 
> experiment with the menu options of pxelinux and this is my 
> pxelinux.cfg/default file.
> 
>  # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 
> 172.16.31.200 default menu.c32 prompt 0 default fai-generated 
> timeout 300 #ONTIMEOUT local
> 
> MENU TITLE PXE Menu
> 
> LABEL fai-generated
>         MENU LABEL Fai Generated
>         kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
>         append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  
> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live 
> FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install

The first line should be several lines, like this:

# generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200 
default menu.c32
prompt 0
default fai-generated 
timeout 300
#ONTIMEOUT local

Make sure that menu.c32 is in the same directory as pxelinux.0 on the
TFTP server.

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Menu

Cheers,
Daniel