I have just released SYSLINUX 3.31. It is functionally identical to
SYSLINUX 3.31-pre4.
Changes in 3.31:
* The simple menu system (menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32) now
support loading more than one configuration file at a time,
using MENU INCLUDE or by specifying multiple filenames.
* The MENU COLOR statement can now control the shadowing mode.
Changes in 3.30:
* libcom32 extended to support graphics mode and graphical console.
* vesamenu.c32, new graphical version of the Simple
Menu System, see README.menu.
* New com32 modules by Erwan Velu do selection based on CPUID
or PCI devices present.
* RPM spec: add syslinux-tftpboot module; move syslinux by
default to the /usr/share/syslinux directory.
* RPM spec: extlinux is now a separate package.
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Title: syslinux
Version: 3.31
Entered-date: 2006-09-25
Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. The FAT
filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
Linux.
It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
modules, including a significant subset of the
standard C library.
It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
or CD-ROM.
Keywords: syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
memdisk com32
Author: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
1906347 syslinux-3.31.tar.gz
2152824 syslinux-3.31.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.38 or
later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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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.
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
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Regards,
Ryan McLean