Syslinux - May 2004 - ONTIMEOUT and menu

Maybe I missed something here.
What I want to happen is PXE boot on a timeout will boot to 
the hard drive. But, what happens is my comboot menu, which is default,
loads right away and the ontimeout only happens when I escape out of 
the menu. 

My pxelinux.cfg/default:


default menu
timeout 100
ontimeout localboot

# The Main Menu
label menu
        kernel mainmenu.com
        append keeppxe

# Boot To Local Drive
label localboot
        LOCALBOOT 0

Try putting the "prompt 1" to ensure that you get a boot prompt at
all.
Using a nice combination of  default, onerror, ontimeout and my autoboot 
COMBOOT code along with the COMBOOT menu, one can do some really nice stuff.

- Murali

Aaron McSorley wrote:
>Maybe I missed something here.
>What I want to happen is PXE boot on a timeout will boot to 
>the hard drive. But, what happens is my comboot menu, which is default,
>loads right away and the ontimeout only happens when I escape out of 
>the menu. 
>
>My pxelinux.cfg/default:
>
>
>default menu
>timeout 100
>ontimeout localboot
>
># The Main Menu
>label menu
>        kernel mainmenu.com
>        append keeppxe
>
># Boot To Local Drive
>label localboot
>        LOCALBOOT 0
>
>
>
>
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Aaron McSorley wrote:
> Maybe I missed something here.
> What I want to happen is PXE boot on a timeout will boot to 
> the hard drive. But, what happens is my comboot menu, which is default,
> loads right away and the ontimeout only happens when I escape out of 
> the menu. 
> 
As long as you're in the menu, from syslinux' perspective you're
running
a program, and no timeouts apply (heck, syslinux doesn't even have control.)

There probably should be a way to pass a timeout to the menu as a 
command-line option, instead of having to recompile the menu.

	-hpa