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

Arlie Stephens arlie at worldash.org
Wed Jun 4 16:11:18 PDT 2014


On Jun 04 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Do you know what version it last worked at? If it's not fixed at
6.03-pre13 perhaps I could go backwards instead of forward? 

> 
> 	-hpa

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Arlie


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