pxe menu

Tue Apr 8 16:10:45 UTC 2008

It's been a while since I've built it, so I don't recall the 
specifics. I was under the impression that it was something that you 
simply enabled. But as I said, it's been a while, so I could be 
wrong.

The c32 stuff is excellent software and is very handy.

Here's a sample of how to use the menuing features in 
your /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file:

LABEL RescueImages
        MENU LABEL Rescue Images
        KERNEL menu.c32
        APPEND pxelinux.cfg/RescueImages

And you simply create a file called RescueImages, which contains the 
normal entries for booting the particular rescue image that you 
want. 

This allows you to have submenus for the rescue images. Something 
which is very handy when you have to support multiple architectures 
and multiple versions/distros, and a particular system is giving you 
trouble.

    -dwight-

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 09:06:44 am Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> 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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