On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:49 AM, James Lapthorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I'm creating a livecd that will be used to securely send an encrypted
> file over FTP and then poweroff.  I have successfully built a minimal
> installation using the provided kickstart and have secured the OS.
>
> I now need to secure booting the livecd, by default the menu allows me
> to edit the boot options and add things like 'init=/bin/bash' to gain
> root access.
>
> The issue I have is the isolinux.cfg generated by
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py'  only allows me to
> modify the timeout by passing 'bootloader --timeout=1' in the kickstart
> file.
>
> Ideally I don't want a menu displayed and the default option to always boot.
>
> I have hacked the live.py to include 'allowoptions 0' which prevents any
> modifications but this is far from a good solution, is there a better
> way of configuring isolinux.cfg
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
>
>
> James Lapthorn

SYSLINUX also provides TOTALTIMEOUT.
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#TOTALTIMEOUT_timeout

        --Fred
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