pxe menu

[Michael DeHaan]

Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> Just to be sure, menu.c32 is a module that extends pxe boot capabilities? 
>   

It's in the package.     For Cobbler I package the menu.c32 from a 
Fedora version, however, because the version packaged with RHEL4 has 
issues (I forget details -- it's been a while).   If running RHEL 5 as 
the PXE server this should not be a problem.
> 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.
>   

It's a seperate file.   If you install Cobbler and create some profiles 
it will build the config files out in /tftpboot for you to look at and 
play with.
> 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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