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

Samuli Seppänen samuli.seppanen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 03:07:38 PDT 2017


On 10/04/2017 13:05, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
> 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.
> 

I used what was bundled in CentOS 7. I will try again with a more
up-to-date version and report back.

Thanks!

Samuli


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