similar to: menu.c32 dies without VGA until version 5

On Mon, 01 Jul, at 11:12:08AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Syslinux 5.xx and 6.xx does not exhibit this issue. I understand that > 4.xx is history now, but it's still widely used in distributions. Is > there an easy fix for this? The core and ls.c32 seems to work well > without VGA, but menu.c32 won't. Adding CONSOLE 0 to the config works > around the issue, but I hit this

Hi, I hit a rather strange problem. I'm PXE booting an IBM Blade. It has a BMC which provides serial over LAN via the BladeCenter management module. Its BIOS has a "Console Redirection" option, which dumps its VGA console messages to a serial port. "Redirection after Boot" is disabled, but pxelinux runs "before boot", so everything arrives twice on the serial

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 08/22/2013 10:20 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Now that Syslinux has ls.c32 and lua.c32, it should be possible to build >> a customizable boot menu in the bootloader itself, instead of generating >> it beforehand by hooking into the kernel installation/removal process. >> Sure that would not work over

Hi, Playing with menu.c32 I noticed that with config extlinux.conf: default menu.c32 label other config other.conf other.conf: label default config extlinux.conf pressing TAB on the menu item "other" prints > .config other.conf Is this .config thing internal to menu.c32? Is it supported at all? Selecting it freezes under QEMU. I know I could load

Hi, Now that Syslinux has ls.c32 and lua.c32, it should be possible to build a customizable boot menu in the bootloader itself, instead of generating it beforehand by hooking into the kernel installation/removal process. Sure that would not work over TFTP (no ls), but the already mentioned 20th century way would not either. Sadly, directory handling is not implemented in the embedded Lua

Hi! The linux.c32 module doesn't boot my kernel, while pxelinux itself does: kernel vmlinuz-2.6.23 append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.23 root=/dev/mapper/root works, while kernel linux.c32 append vmlinuz-2.6.23 initrd=initrd.img-2.6.23 root=/dev/mapper/root does not: it stays sitting after loading the initrd without any output. Version 3.50-pre2 worked, current git does not work.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote: > Alexandre Blanchette <blanalex at gmail.com> writes: > > > Is there a way to show some bits of information in the menu, like > > Syslinux version, MAC address and IP address? When the menu is loaded > > at startup, this information is quickly erased and is not easily > > readable.

Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> writes: > Op 2013-10-15 om 20:03 schreef Ferenc W?gner: > >> lua: import Lua 5.2.2 > > Posted as [patch01/21] > Which was too big for the mailinglist. > So some other way is needed to share that information ... Hmm, yes. The series is available at https://github.com/wferi/syslinux as well (lua52 branch, based on upstream

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 08/29/2013 04:14 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: >> >>> On 08/22/2013 10:20 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> >>>> Now that Syslinux has ls.c32 and lua.c32, it should be possible to build >>>> a customizable boot menu in

Hi, I did try that, but then after the boot fails, the menu is displayed ... again... -Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ferenc Wagner [mailto:wferi at niif.hu] Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 3:22 PM To: Bradley, Mike Cc: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: Re: [syslinux] Menu too quick "Bradley, Mike via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com> writes: > I'm trying to add a

Hi, The menu timeout isn't cancelled but restarted when there's only a single item in the menu and I try to move the selection. The selection flashes but of course does not move. Tested with pxelinux under QEMU: $ qemu -net nic -boot n -net user,tftp=tftpboot,bootfile=/pxelinux.0 pxelinux.cfg/default: UI menu.c32 TIMEOUT 100 LABEL single KERNEL blah Adding another menu item

Hi! Using the following extlinux.conf serial 0x2f8 57600 0x013 # that is, RTS/CTS flow control on COM2 prompt 1 timeout 100 say Select 'linux' or 'xen'. say Automatically booting 'xen' in 10 seconds. default xen label linux kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 append initrd=/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/mapper/xen1-root ro console=tty0 console=ttyS1,57600n8r noresume

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 12/12/2013 12:31 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Shall I rebase it to the current firmware head? >> >> Also, 5.2.3 was released a couple of days ago. It's a bugfix release. >> I made it into a sepearete commit (pushed). >> >> Better default Lua paths (source and binary) would be

On Sat, 22 Jun, at 05:24:21PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> writes: > > > Please do test out the release and report any regressions. > > Unfortunately, I can't make it under Debian wheezy + experimental > gnu-efi (ie. 3.0u+debian-1): > > $ make installer [...] > make[3]: *** No rule to make target

Hi, Under 3.70 with the following config: default menu.c32 label l1 menu separator label l2 I get a nice menu, but the empty line (the separator) is highlightable with the down arrow key. Meanwhile, it isn't highlightable by the up arrow key, that is, the behaviour is asymmetric. Is this a bug? I feel like the separator should be skipped from both directions. -- Cheers, Feri.

Testing Syslinux 6.03-pre13 in a BIOS 32-bit VM, boot: vesa.c32 Undef symbol FAIL: luaL_checklstring Failed to load COM32 file vesa.c32 boot: Is there a Lua-related issue? Is vesa.c32 expecting some kind of argument? TIA, Ady.

Is there a way to show some bits of information in the menu, like Syslinux version, MAC address and IP address? When the menu is loaded at startup, this information is quickly erased and is not easily readable. -- Alexandre Blanchette <blanalex at gmail.com>

Hello, up to now I have been using plain pxelinux with symbolic links (IP or MAC-Address) to the machine dependent defaults. This has been working fine with minimal differences in the configuration files: --default-lenny-- DEFAULT lenny INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/include-options INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/include-kernels ----------------- --default-squeeze-- DEFAULT squeeze INCLUDE

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 12/11/2013 11:52 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> Op 2013-12-11 om 02:09 schreef syslinux-bot for Matt Fleming: >> >>> Commit-ID: 5e59ac11d6d105591d6da742750ea2f804534d43 >>> Gitweb: http://www.syslinux.org/commit/5e59ac11d6d105591d6da742750ea2f804534d43 >>> Author: Matt Fleming

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for > ext4 has come up as a very high priority. Therefore I do not want to > stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05. hpa, if 64-bit support for ext4 is mostly ready, you may want to release 6.04 in less than ten days, so that