Hi, I had one entry in my main menu which looked like: label exit menu label ^Exit menu menu quit Now, I did not expect anyone to type: exit on the boot-prompt. But someone did today and we discovered that isolinux froze (and even ctrl-alt-del did not cause a reboot). Unfortunately in this instance we also found that the RSA adapter was not or incorrectly configured. And we could not remotely reboot the server. :) So I changed it into: label - menu label ^Exit menu menu quit However I don't think that such an entry should have this behaviour on the command prompt. Maybe providing a new prompt would be better in this case ? Just a thought... -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Sebastian Herbszt
2009-Apr-28 18:36 UTC
[syslinux] "menu quit" entry causing prompt to freeze
Dag Wieers wrote:> Hi, > > I had one entry in my main menu which looked like: > > label exit > menu label ^Exit menu > menu quit > > Now, I did not expect anyone to type: exit on the boot-prompt. But someone > did today and we discovered that isolinux froze (and even ctrl-alt-del did > not cause a reboot). > > Unfortunately in this instance we also found that the RSA adapter was not > or incorrectly configured. And we could not remotely reboot the server. :) > > So I changed it into: > > label - > menu label ^Exit menu > menu quit > > However I don't think that such an entry should have this behaviour on the > command prompt. Maybe providing a new prompt would be better in this case ? > > Just a thought...I just tried such an entry in my config using pxelinux and since this label doesn't have a kernel name set pxelinux jumps here to local_boot and tries to boot from local disk. It doesn't matter if the label is called "exit" or "xyz". Does local boot work from isolinux on that system? - Sebastian