[syslinux] Prompting the user for input in the PXE boot menu?

[Ferenc Wágner]

Samuli Seppänen via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> writes:

> I tried LUA scripting, but the syslinux implementation of LUA seemed to
> be missing input support.

What version did you try?  This works for me:

boot: lua
Lua 5.2.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> s = io.read ("*l")
foobar
> print (s)
foobar

Input support is indeed limited, but should be sufficient for this.
-- 
Feri