On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:04:44PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Trent W. Buck wrote: > > > > Please default PROMPT to 0 in pxelinux.HEAD - it seems a little > > > silly to me for di-netboot-assistant to construct a pretty menu and > > > then ask the user to randomly press enter 99.9% of the time, > > > especially as that screen is full of technical PXE debugging output, > > > etc. > > > > Unfortunately, menu.c32 does not work on some PXE roms. When I was > > discussing it with the upstream author "hpa" about six months ago, he > > said that his basically shouldn't happen, and that the PXE ROMs in > > question are buggy. > > > > What happens is that attempting to load menu.c32 on such systems > > results in the entire screen going black (not even a flashing > > underscore), and it does not respond to any keypresses. > > I don't really follow understand the problem that adding "PROMPT 0" > would cause on the broken systems - if the buggy BIOSes essentially > freeze the machine and generally don't work, then it's not going to > work anyway, right?
The machines in question work without problems -- unless menu.c32 is loaded. PROMPT 0 means that the user would need to know to hold down Shift, and possibly also how to enter the TFTP path to the kernel and the kernel arguments (e.g. ramdisk) -- I don't know if holding shift results in the rest of the config being loaded; I suspect not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
