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Hello syslinux, I am trying to add a page break in the license file. Could you help me to add a page break in the text file? I tried "^L" in every 25 lines but it didn't work. What I want to do is this. In the boot prompt, I want to display the license file by pressing F2 but the file is about 300 lines so it just scrolls up very quickly. Do you have any idea how to pause in each

I'm an archlinux user. Arch linux installation ISO uses syslinux as bootloader I'm coping (not verbatim) this from bugs.archlinux.org/32774 -------- I wrote: The CD boots fine, but when it reaches at the initial screen which displays the available options (Install x86_32 or x86_64 version etc) the screen scrolls up and I get a screen filled with [14;5H[H[19;5 If I press a key a

Hi. I've ever wondered how nuch timeis left to timeout while waiting at the boot prompt, so I've writen this small patch to show it. This add a configuration command 'showtimeout'. If you like the patch I could improve it (for example to show the timeout in decimal because now it uses the writehex functions) Regards. -- ______ ________ / / \/ /___ ) I N T E G

hm, nice algorythm thingie. I'm not a programmer, so here goes: currently: F1 helpfile.txt probably results in DISPLAY helpfile.txt perhaps extend this option: F1 arg1 arg2 arg3 argX if arg1 does not exist, abort (currently also done?) if arg1 ends in COM extension, execute it and pass the optional arg2/3/X parameters if arg1 ends in C32 extension, same thing. else DISPLAY arg1 // arg1

Testing the following (uncommon) syslinux.cfg with different Syslinux versions allows getting to several observations; some might be of interest to users, and some for the Syslinux developers. syslinux.cfg *** UI menu.c32 DEFAULT help TIMEOUT 30 # ONTIMEOUT help LABEL pwd COM32 pwd.c32 LABEL help MENU HELP help.txt *** 1_ For the TIMEOUT-related directives to behave as expected,

Hi, I don't know if that is intentional or a bug: ---<snip>--- DEFAULT 1 DISPLAY /isolinux/txt/message.txt PROMPT 1 F1 /isolinux/txt/about.txt F2 /isolinux/txt/message.txt ---<snap>--- if i boot into the system and press F2 i get about.txt. then i press F2 and get message.txt again. If i then press F1 again i do not get as expected the about.txt file, i just get another boot:

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:19 PM Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > You should be able to see the effects of the DISPLAY directive when > > > testing the floppy image I sent you, because it starts with the boot > > > prompt, not with a menu. > > > > I see the effects, both good and bad. I'm having

Hello Syslinux Team, The following scenario shows some issues when using DISPLAY files (and the SAY directive). *** help.txt start *** LINE 1 OF help.txt LINE 2 OF help.txt LINE 3 (one before last) OF help.txt USE F1 TO TEST *** help.txt end *** Note: in "help.txt", there are no initial nor ending blank lines. After the last line: " USE

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:33 PM Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:19 PM Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You should be able to see

Hi. I've recently picked up a 256MB compact flash card and CF->IDE adapter. I'm wanting to put a smaller version of knoppix on here. I came across miniknoppix here: http://www.inittab.org and decided to have a play around with that. So far I have opened up the ISO image and copied all the files out. I have put a boot sector onto the CF by putting the CF into the IDER adpater then

Hello, When I upgrade syslinux from 2.13 to 3.02. my linux floppy doesn't boot anymore. steps: dd if=/dev/zero of=fdimg bs=18k count=160 mkdosfs fdimg syslinux fdimg mount -o loop fdimg /mnt cp files/* /mnt/ umount /mnt then use memdisk load fdimg the files includes: vmlinuz initrd syslinux.cfg message.txt f1.txt ... it only prompts 1 line: SYSLINUX 3.02

This is a bug report about Syslinux 6.03-pre11 in EFI. To Syslinux EFI developers; the results can be replicated in real hardware. I apologize for the length of the email; I am describing the steps necessary to reproduce the confusing behaviors the best I can. I have been experimenting with VBox and Syslinux EFI32. In EFI, the default screen resolution for [vesa]menu.c32 is not 640 x 480

I was trying to use my windows RIS server to deploy linux so as to require user authentication. After seaching the internet I found that it was possible but not very well explained after alot of tinkering I eventually got it to work. Here is my documentation so hopefully others can do it in less time than I, feel free to comment and improve.. ************************ On RIS Server Create

Ady, Thanks for taking the time to respond to my lengthy post. Here are my answers: On 11/5/14, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> I have used syslinux 4.0x and earlier for many years, with Puppy Linux >> and more recently Quirky Linux. Though, my knowledge of all the >> capabilities of syslinux remains rudimentary. >> >> I am new to UEFI. I recently

This implements the label completion on tab key idea. It does introduce "labelcompl" as new config keyword. The default value is 0 so it does not change current behaviour. If you press tab with an empty command line it will display all labels. If the command line contains any characters it will display the matching labels. This patch is only intended for testing since i didn't check

Hi, is there an option to have the DISPLAY command issue a pause after each screen full of information? I've been searching for a way to have users to agree to (or at least be able to read ) the GPL license. "by issueing a command other than F2 you agree that you are bound to the terms of the GNU Public License that is used on this FreeDOS beta9 cdrom. You can read the license terms by

I would like to see that it is possible to specify which config file should be loaded. I would like to have an extension of the CONFIG command. Normally CONFIG loads the file that is specified after it. It should be nice if syslinux/isolinux/pxelinux/extlinux can choose which config file to load, based on the bootloader from which the current config is runned. If I will explain it with an

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:19 PM Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > You should be able to see the effects of the DISPLAY directive when > > > > testing the floppy image I sent you, because it starts with the

Hi Peter, I'm doing some work for HP creating various flavours of bootable CDs, and am using isolinux for i386 and elilo for ia64. We wanted the same interface on both systems, with the ability to choose a boot option from a menu with the cursor keys. To implement this I enhanced isolinux to support two new control fields in the message file: 0x01 ^A Mark left- or right-hand end of the

I am getting the following error with memdisk when attempting to boot. I am booting UEFI device using elilo.efi and loading a elilo.conf file with below configuration. Attached is also a print sceen of the error I am getting about memdisk. # force chooser to textmenu chooser=textmenu delay=20 prompt # # the files containing the text (with attributes) to display # message=textmenu-message.msg