[syslinux] MENU HIDDENKEY help?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 09:47:17 PDT 2012


On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Matt Sephton <matt.sephton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping you could shed some light in usage of the directive MENU HIDDENKEY in syslinux (extlinux 4.04)
>
> The docs say:
> MENU HIDDENKEY key[,key...] command...
>
> So, in my conf I have:
>
> MENU HIDDENKEY Esc openelec
>
> Where openelec is the label of the boot option I want to run only if Esc is pressed.

Have you tried other keys?

> But pressing Esc on boot has no effect. Default is run. So, do I misunderstand the "command" part of the directive? If so, are there any examples I can learn from?
>
> My full conf is here: http://pastebin.com/RJuju4RF

DEFAULT menu.c32

should ideally be

DEFAULT winxp
UI menu.c32

> The effect I am after is a blank screen that will boot default if nothing is pressed, but if Esc is pressed it will boot an alternate or show the menu.

I presume you realize the timeout is only 3 seconds (30 deciseconds), right?

-- 
-Gene



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