Syslinux - Sep 2006 - SYSLINUX 3.31-pre4 is release candidate

I have decided to promote SYSLINUX 3.31-pre4 to release candidate 
status.  If it tests out OK, it will become 3.31 some time next week, 
probably.

	-hpa

On 9/23/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
wrote:
> I have decided to promote SYSLINUX 3.31-pre4 to release candidate
> status.  If it tests out OK, it will become 3.31 some time next week,
> probably.
I'm testing pxelinux.

I have a main config file which calls a submenu config file, which has
an option to go back to the main menu; I copied the examples at the
end of README.menu (LABEL othermenu, LABEL maimenu).

In the main config file I have a timeout, when using keys to select
the submenu the  timeout stops; when I return to the main manu from
the submenu the timeout restarts.

Is there a way for the timeout not to be restarted once it has been stopped?

Thanks


-- 
giulioo at pobox.com

> In the main config file I have a timeout, when using keys to select
> the submenu the  timeout stops; when I return to the main manu from
> the submenu the timeout restarts.
>
> Is there a way for the timeout not to be restarted once it has been
> stopped?
>
Just remove the timeout option from your main menu config file.

Works perfectly for me..

Below are my conf files incase anyone is interested

pxelinux.cfg/default
-------------------------------------------
# Default boot option to use
DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 

# Prompt user for selection
PROMPT 0

# Menu Configuration
MENU WIDTH 75
MENU MARGIN 25
MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
MENU ROWS 6
MENU TABMSGROW 18
MENU CMDLINEROW 18
MENU ENDROW 24
MENU PASSWORDROW 11
MENU TIMEOUTROW 20
MENU TITLE RHWS Main Menu

MENU INCLUDE gfx/default

# Menus
LABEL x86-4
        MENU LABEL ^32Bit (x86) - 4.x
#       MENU HIDE
        KERNEL vesamenu.c32
        APPEND conf/x86-4.conf
-------------------------------------------

conf/x86-4.conf
-----------------------
# Default boot option to use
DEFAULT vesamenu.c32

# Prompt user for selection
PROMPT 0

# Time until default is selected
TIMEOUT 100

# Menu Configuration
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 20
MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
MENU ROWS 7
MENU TABMSGROW 18
MENU CMDLINEROW 18
MENU ENDROW 24
MENU PASSWORDROW 11
MENU TIMEOUTROW 20
MENU TITLE 32Bit (x86) RHWS 4.x OS Choice

MENU INCLUDE gfx/default

# Return to Main Menu
LABEL MainMenu
        MENU DEFAULT
        MENU LABEL ^Main Menu
        KERNEL vesamenu.c32

# 
# Latest Release
#
LABEL latest
        MENU LABEL ^Latest Release
        KERNEL knl/vmlinuz-rhws44-x86
        APPEND initrd=img/initrd-rhws44-x86.img 
ks=http://kickstartserver/rhws44
-----------------------------------------------------

gfx/default
----------------------------------------------------
# vesamenu Default cfg
#
# MENU BACKGROUND filename
MENU BACKGROUND back.jpg

# MENU COLOR element ansi foreground background

menu color screen               37;40      #80ffffff             #00000000
menu color border               30;44      #90996633     #00000000
menu color title                        1;36;44   #c00090f0     #00000000
menu color unsel                37;47      #e0336699    #00000000
menu color hotkey               1;37;44   #e000ff00      #00000000
menu color sel                  7;37;40    #e0ff0000    #20ff8000
menu color hotsel               1;7;37;40  #e0400000     #20ff8000
menu color scrollbar            30;44      #40000000    #00000000
menu color tabmsg               31;40      #CCFF0000    #00000000
menu color cmdmark              1;36;40    #c000ffff    #00000000
menu color cmdline              37;40      #c0ffffff            #00000000
menu color pwdborder            30;47      #80ffffff            #20ffffff
menu color pwdheader            31;47      #80ff8080    #20ffffff
menu color pwdentry             30;47      #80ffffff            #20ffffff
menu color timeout_msg  37;40      #CCFF0000     #00000000
menu color timeout              1;37;40    #c0333999    #00000000
----------------------------------------------

Regards,


Ryan McLean

Sorry for the barage of posts but just had a small idea that would be a 
nice tweek more than anything

Could  we have an option to define the timeout msg?

So instead of "Automatically Booting in XX seconds"

So I could have "Returning to Main menu in XX seconds".

and as a futher extension to this can we call a var that stores the 
default option so i could have

"Installing <DEFAULT> in XX seconds"
"Booting <DEFAULT> in XX seconds"

where <DEFAULT> is the default boot option in that cfg file.

I dont think its a feature of much use to those of us posting here, but if 
any of us are letting users near it i think it would be usefull for them 
to see what is happening so they don't panic and choose something by 
mistake.


Regards,


Ryan McLean

I assume what you want is something like:

Goto main menu
if (timeout == true)
    run cmd 1
fi
if (user-select == option x )
    goto menu y
    if (timeout == true)
        return to main menu
        Do nothing
    fi
fi
    
As far as i am aware it is not possible..

Regards,


Ryan McLean