On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:09:00AM +0100, Chris Lamb 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.
Here is a list of MAC addresses that I have personally verified have
this issue:
### These systems don't support simple menus.
## Asiarock Incorporation
00-0b-6a-1f-57-5d main-line.cfg
## Not in ethercodes.dat. Clear cases?
00-13-8f-34-bc-9b main-line.cfg
00-15-f2-5a-59-b5 main-line.cfg
00-15-f2-5a-59-c2 main-line.cfg
## Some kind of SiS chipset
00-13-8f-34-bb-61 main-line.cfg
00-11-d8-49-45-b5 main-line.cfg
What I've been doing (I haven't adopted di-netboot-assistant yet) is
to simply create two pxelinux.cfg files -- one that uses menu.c32
(with PROMPT 0) and one that doesn't.
Having said all that, I agree with this proposed change -- the
majority of systems WILL work with menu.c32 and so PROMPT 0 is a good
thing.
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