[syslinux] Chainloading / Nested PXELINUX

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/16/2010 01:03 PM, Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 14:58, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 
>> Any reason to not just use a submenu (see the documentation for MENU
>> INCLUDE).
>>
> 
> I can answer this from my perspective.
> 
> I would like to be able to dump in Ubuntu's new releases into my menu
> without modifying them. I'd like to just say load the boot menu from a
> certain directory, but I cannot do that right now. Instead I have to create
> my own menus if I want them integrated with my other menu options.
> 
> Part of this is due to the fact that the menu files use absolute paths and
> there isn't a convenient way to change the base path. The other part is that
> ubuntu now use vesamenu.c32 instead of the normal menu, and they don't seem
> to mix well.
> 

In Syslinux 4 you can use:

LABEL <label>
	MENU LABEL <title>
	CONFIG <configfile>
	APPEND <new root path>

	-hpa