severity 493548 wishlist thanks On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 08:52 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > 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 > > > > > > Unfortunately, menu.c32 does not work on some [..] roms. > > > > > > 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.
I wanted di-n-a to be compatible with oldstable (i.e etch ;), so I used menu.c32 (switching to vesamenu 1 month before Lenny's freeze wasn't reasonable, IMHO) In Lenny+1, I'm planning to use vesamenu. More incompatibility may appear, so having the option to use menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32 will help. If I get no bug, I would then enable "PROMPT 0" with vesamenu. Thank you for reporting this bug, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
