[syslinux] How to use --once? Does it work?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/04/2014 03:42 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a system derived from ARCH linux, running what they
> call version 6.02-4 of the syslinux package (which would be your
> version 6.02 plus their/our patches).  I've got a syslinux.cfg
> with several named menu options, and the right things happen if I set
> the DEFAULT option in syslinux.cfg, or select one of the options at
> the console during boot. 
> 
> What I want to do is reboot into a particular menu option once, and if
> that fails, reboot back on the usual default, without requiring anyone
> to interact with the console. 
> 
> This appears to be the purpose of --once.
> 

I believe --once is simply broken in 6.02.  I can't remember if it has
been fixed in 6.03-pre13; need to check this.

	-hpa