If you use the advanced menu, you can have a context sensitive help
system and some other advanced features. However, it does not support
graphics or serial consoles and the menu needs to be created from a
configuration file (different syntax from isolinux.cfg).
- Murali
On 1/24/07, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
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> I've been using the standard isolinux.cfg file for some time
with
> great success. Have it currently display a file at the beginning with
> a little .lss graphic file, and some basic info then with the image
> names and info. Also have 4 of the help files linked to the F1 - F4
> keys.
>
> But I just had a number of emails back and forth with a user that was
> getting kernel panics. It eventually turned out that the user was not
> typing the bzImagexx kernel name with the capital I.
>
> I have found some samples of the vesamenu configuration, and was able
> to create png file that displays the graphic info at the bottom of the
> screen versus the top, but the text info isn't there, but could
be
> added to the png file with some effort. The help files and using F?
> keys doesn't do anything. I'm thinking the cat.c32 would
probable
> allow one to display the files in a simlar format, but have not been
> able to find a sample of how that would be done in the isolinux.cfg
> file.
>
> The G4L project that I currently handle has about 3,000 downloads per
> month from the freshmeat and sourceforge sites, and all kinds of
> users. I'd like to make it as easy as possible to avoid problems.
This
> vesamenu does elimanate the problem with entering the kernel name, but
> at the moment, it looses the help info.
>
> I also scanned the over 3000 emails I have in my syslinux folder, and
> relooked at all the messages that had vesamenu in them.
>
> The isolinux.cfg file that I've created so far it here.
>
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/vesamenu.isolinux.cfg
>
> Working on the next release of the G4L, and have just placed two new
> versions with the latest 2.6.20 rc5 -git 2 kernels in addition to
> older ones.
>
> ISO using standard isolinux.cfg
>
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l22beta-01-22-2007t.iso
>
> ISO using the vesamenu isolinux.cfg
>
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l22beta-01-23-2007-vesa.iso
>
> Perhaps there are examples of implementing the help like files with
> the vesamenu, but I wasn't able to find it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Murali
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