pxe menu

[Michael DeHaan]

Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> 	Have a look at pxeboot (from syslinux project) and their menu.c32 ;)
>
> 	Regards
> 	Pablo
>   

Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) uses menu.c32 to generate it's 
PXE menus.  menu.c32 is of course very nice.   I haven't found a good 
way to generate submenus in though I would be very interested in this -- 
for instance, if you were able to pick your cobbler distribution and 
then pick profiles based on that distribution, or if the lists were very 
long it might be more useful than having scrolling.

However since menu.c32 does offer some very nice scrolling, unless your 
number of entries gets very large, the need for submenus may be a non-issue.

Another problem you'll run into with menu.c32 is that it does not offer 
a working timeout -- so once you PXE to engage the menu, the user must 
choose from the menu... so in my case I default to "default", and 
menu.c32 is the "menu" target -- so to pull up the menu you have to type 
"menu" at the syslinux prompt before it times out to "default".

Hopefully that helps, if you get a good working hierarchical setup with 
menu.c32 I'd be interested in seeing your configuration files on that.

--Michael
> El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 10:09 +0100, Gerrard Geldenhuis escribió:
>   
>> Hi 
>>
>> I have been looking through the documentation to see if you can have
>> sub menus in the pxe boot menu but could not find anything that talks
>> specifically about it. I could probably adapt the function key menus
>> but would prefer to use the normal menus. Does anyone have an example
>> I could use or point me to the right documentation please.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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