Syslinux - Jul 2009 - Problem with PXE, menu, and ipappend

I have been using PXELINUX with the "ipappend 2" option for a long
time.
To make things a little more user friendly, I decided to set up menus
(text menus with menu.c32), but they wouldn't work (blank screen and
corrupted menu flashes by when you hit a key).

I went through all kinds of combinations of options, and finally found
that commenting out the "ipappend 2" line fixed all the problems.  It
would appear there is some corruption when combining the menus and that
option.

This is with syslinux 3.75 (from Fedora 11).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

Good day Chris,

In regards to your config-file that causes trouble when the IPAPPEND
statement is included, have you tried the latest Syslinux version?
Could you be interested in e-mailing your config-file and making note of
where the IPAPPEND statement usually sits (perhaps by commenting it
out)?

- Shao Miller

Chris Adams wrote:
> I have been using PXELINUX with the "ipappend 2" option for a
long time.
> To make things a little more user friendly, I decided to set up menus
> (text menus with menu.c32), but they wouldn't work (blank screen and
> corrupted menu flashes by when you hit a key).
> 
> I went through all kinds of combinations of options, and finally found
> that commenting out the "ipappend 2" line fixed all the problems.
It
> would appear there is some corruption when combining the menus and that
> option.
> 
> This is with syslinux 3.75 (from Fedora 11).
The blank screen happened in that version when the menu file was blank.

It's hard to know exactly what broke without seeing the full configuration.

Also note that the current version is 3.82.

	-hpa

I don't mean "should", I meant "could".  I _should_ have
said, "Are the
results any different if you do it this way?"  Sorry about dumbspeak.  -
Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Shao 
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 13:59
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
Subject: RE: [syslinux] Problem with PXE, menu, and ipappend

Hey Chris,

Just a thought about your IPAPPEND trouble in your PXELINUX config-file:
Perhaps the IPAPPEND statement should belong to one (or more) of your
LABEL paragraphs in particular, and not as a global-style option at the
beginning?

- Shao Miller