[syslinux] vesamenu back to text before booting

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 06:10:10 PST 2014


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Ady wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps there should be a new MENU-type directive, so to force the
>> > screen to text mode (as opposed to leaving it in graphics mode for as
>> > long as it can be)? Perhaps this could also be useful when exiting a
>> > vesamenu to Syslinux CLI?
>>
>> Yes, please. To make this dependent *only* on the configuration of
>> the menu entry started is, IMHO, the only way to go.
>>
>
> If you want a per-label behavior, you could try adding a new menu
> entry:

Ady has an excellent point.  Try the following instead:

  LABEL test
    MENU LABEL test
    COM32 pxechn.c32
    APPEND pxebsd.0

Additionally, I'd suggest using the type-specific KERNEL-like
directives (LINUX, COM32, PXE, etc) instead of the "guess and pray"
directive KERNEL.

-- 
-Gene


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