Syslinux - Nov 2010 - Change message after timeout

Hi All,


I have successfully configure the PXE and its working fine, the problem is
that after timeout in the following msg

     Automatic boot in # second

the screen stuck/hang there showing the above message or the menu if we
choose to selection from menu until image is loaded from network.

So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.


Regards,

Hello

I'm trying to boot freedos/msdos from PXE to run a BIOS & firmware
upgrade on my machines.

e.g.

LABEL FIRMWARE
MENU LABEL FIRMWARE UPDATE
kernel memdisk
APPEND iso initrd=firmware.iso raw


I can boot either the 1.44 virtual floppy (.img) or the ISO with the .img files
added as
boot. When I boot up it gets the first line in the autoexec.bat:

MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /L:X

and seems to run run successfully, however if I go into X: it does change drive
letter
but I also get an error/abort/fail something.

I think I really miss something here

Any help?

NOTE: the firmware is 8Mb so saving it in the .img is not an option
unfortunately.

Thanks!!!!
:-)

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:20, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I have successfully configure the PXE and its working fine, the problem is
> that after timeout in the following msg
>
> ? ? Automatic boot in # second
I assume you're using PXELINUX and menu.c32/vesamenu.c32, correct?
> the screen stuck/hang there showing the above message or the menu if we
> choose to selection from menu until image is loaded from network.
Do you have the keyword quiet in your global or LABEL-specific APPEND?
 I'm guessing yes.  If so, this is by design.
> So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
> I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
> but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.
Not to my knowledge.  SAY is executed by the core while
reading/paesing the config file only.  You could wrie a COM32 module
that displays a message then executes a command line (like the
ifXXX.c32 and cmd.c32 modules).
> Regards,
-- 
-Gene

On 11/11/2010 05:20 AM, Muhammad Ammar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have successfully configure the PXE and its working fine, the problem is
> that after timeout in the following msg
> 
>      Automatic boot in # second
> 
> the screen stuck/hang there showing the above message or the menu if we
> choose to selection from menu until image is loaded from network.
> 
> So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
> I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
> but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.
> 
This was a bug in older versions; current versions should clear the
string after the timeout.

	-hpa

Sorry for confusion. The MENU CLEAR is working quite fine. The problem is
how to display a new message after timeout or screen clear.

Regards,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 05:20 AM, Muhammad Ammar wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have successfully configure the PXE and its working fine, the
problem
> is
> > that after timeout in the following msg
> >
> >      Automatic boot in # second
> >
> > the screen stuck/hang there showing the above message or the menu if
we
> > choose to selection from menu until image is loaded from network.
> >
> > So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
> > I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
> > but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.
> >
>
> This was a bug in older versions; current versions should clear the
> string after the timeout.
>
>        -hpa
>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:02:26AM -0500, Gene Cumm
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:20, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]
> > So, is there any way we can display another message after timeout.
> > I tried MENU CLEAR and SAY Loading image from network ...
> > but message is displayed even before the Automatic boot in # second.
> 
> Not to my knowledge.  SAY is executed by the core while
> reading/paesing the config file only.  You could wrie a COM32 module
> that displays a message then executes a command line (like the
> ifXXX.c32 and cmd.c32 modules).
There is a way to achieve this without a custom .c32 module - just
make the menu entry load a separate CONFIG file, where you can use SAY
and DISPLAY before booting the real entry specified there in DEFAULT.
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Ercolino de spiacico
<bellocarico at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ctrl-n sends me to the next voice in the menu (like arrow down)
>
> Am I doing the right thing?
Try to do it in the command line interface:)


-- 
regards
Liu Aleaxander