pxe menu

Gerrard Geldenhuis Gerrard.Geldenhuis at datacash.com
Tue Apr 8 16:06:44 UTC 2008


Just to be sure, menu.c32 is a module that extends pxe boot capabilities? 

Is it build into the syslinux package or do I need to download it. I could not find anythng relevant on a RH AS 4 server which is my satellite box.

I will gladly pass on anything if I get it working properly.

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
> Sent: 08 April 2008 16:18
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: pxe menu
> 
> 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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