Syslinux - Dec 2008 - sub menus / multiple distros on usb key w/ syslinux

being a complete novice with syslinux, I was hoping someone here could 
help me out.

I have a USB Key that I have "broken" into two areas. General storage
in
the "back" and space for several live distributions on the front. What
I
need to do now is figure out how to make a syslinux.cfg file that would 
let me pick which one to boot at startup time.

Basically, I want a menu that works like this:

Distro 1
   |---Boot With X
   |---Boot No X
Distro 2
  |--- Boot w/ Enlightenment X server
  |--- Boot w/ KDE4
  |--- Boot text mode


etc....

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Take a look at how PXE Knife does it's menuing.  Beyond that your distro
would need to know how to handle a boot time argument to do the
switching for the gui environments (gui vs. non-gui is easy as it's
usually just the selection of a run level)

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley


On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:53 -0700, Joe Mocantish wrote:
> being a complete novice with syslinux, I was hoping someone here could 
> help me out.
> 
> I have a USB Key that I have "broken" into two areas. General
storage in
> the "back" and space for several live distributions on the front.
What I
> need to do now is figure out how to make a syslinux.cfg file that would 
> let me pick which one to boot at startup time.
> 
> Basically, I want a menu that works like this:
> 
> Distro 1
>    |---Boot With X
>    |---Boot No X
> Distro 2
>   |--- Boot w/ Enlightenment X server
>   |--- Boot w/ KDE4
>   |--- Boot text mode
> 
> 
> etc....
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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