Syslinux - Oct 2007 - Multiboot DVD with original bootscreens kept intact

Hello,
This is my first post ever in a mailing-list so I hope I do the things
correctly.
First, thank's to the author for these amazing tools.

With Isolinux, I
am making my own DVD multiboot with multiple liveCDs combined. I can get to work
everything without even modifying livecds hierarchy. But now I need an important
function that
I can't get to work: DISPLAY boot.msg

In fact to be precise, it
works perfectly the first time isolinux.cfg is shown, but if I append another
cfg
with the DISPLAY command, it won't show up, even if it's the same file
! Here's an example:

ISOLINUX.CFG content:

DISPLAY boot.msg
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 100
DEFAULT main
LABEL main
  KERNEL menu.c32
  APPEND /ISOLINUX.CFG

ISOLINUX.CFG
is capitalized because the filename is that way and Linux is case
sensitive. In boot.msg you can place any message you want. APPEND
/ISOLINUX.CFG is the same as APPEND ISOLINUX.CFG in my case, it even
works better in fact (noticed less bugs when I have more complicated paths).

Now if you try this configuration, you'll
see that the first time it shows up the splash screen will show the
message, but after the other splashscreens won't. So how to do that ? I
need it in fact to keep the original messages from livecds bootscreens that can
contain precious
infos. If there is another way I'm okay, but I would like to know if at
least it's possible. Maybe there is a way to combine Isolinux with GRUB ?

One more thing I noticed: even if you set PROMPT 1 the prompt will be disabled
after the first screen. I think it could be because of "  KERNEL
menu.c32", but I don't know what to replace this with.

I precise that I use the latest isolinux from syslinux v3.52.

Thank's for any answer.

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Gros Bedo wrote:
> 
> ISOLINUX.CFG content:
> 
> DISPLAY boot.msg
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 100
> DEFAULT main
> LABEL main
>   KERNEL menu.c32
>   APPEND /ISOLINUX.CFG
> 
> ISOLINUX.CFG
> is capitalized because the filename is that way and Linux is case
> sensitive.
iso9660 isn't, though.
> In boot.msg you can place any message you want. APPEND
> /ISOLINUX.CFG is the same as APPEND ISOLINUX.CFG in my case, it even
> works better in fact (noticed less bugs when I have more complicated
paths).
> 
> Now if you try this configuration, you'll
> see that the first time it shows up the splash screen will show the
> message, but after the other splashscreens won't. So how to do that ? I
> need it in fact to keep the original messages from livecds bootscreens that
can contain precious
> infos. If there is another way I'm okay, but I would like to know if at
> least it's possible. Maybe there is a way to combine Isolinux with GRUB
?
> 
> One more thing I noticed: even if you set PROMPT 1 the prompt will be
disabled after the first screen. I think it could be because of "  KERNEL
menu.c32", but I don't know what to replace this with.
> 
> I precise that I use the latest isolinux from syslinux v3.52.
This is a rather unusual request, but you can certainly do it by 
changing "kernel/append" to "config /isolinux.cfg".

	-hpa