Joe Mocantish
2008-Dec-04 09:53 UTC
[syslinux] sub menus / multiple distros on usb key w/ syslinux
being a complete novice with syslinux, I was hoping someone here could help me out. I have a USB Key that I have "broken" into two areas. General storage in the "back" and space for several live distributions on the front. What I need to do now is figure out how to make a syslinux.cfg file that would let me pick which one to boot at startup time. Basically, I want a menu that works like this: Distro 1 |---Boot With X |---Boot No X Distro 2 |--- Boot w/ Enlightenment X server |--- Boot w/ KDE4 |--- Boot text mode etc.... Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Take a look at how PXE Knife does it's menuing. Beyond that your distro would need to know how to handle a boot time argument to do the switching for the gui environments (gui vs. non-gui is easy as it's usually just the selection of a run level) - John 'Warthog9' Hawley On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:53 -0700, Joe Mocantish wrote:> being a complete novice with syslinux, I was hoping someone here could > help me out. > > I have a USB Key that I have "broken" into two areas. General storage in > the "back" and space for several live distributions on the front. What I > need to do now is figure out how to make a syslinux.cfg file that would > let me pick which one to boot at startup time. > > Basically, I want a menu that works like this: > > Distro 1 > |---Boot With X > |---Boot No X > Distro 2 > |--- Boot w/ Enlightenment X server > |--- Boot w/ KDE4 > |--- Boot text mode > > > etc.... > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Thanks in advance! > > _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.