If the prompt.cfg could be split in to using an include so that the menu and timeout and prompt lines were seperate from the display and f1,f2,f3.... lines then I think I have a cunning plan...
I will e-mail/bug report again if I get a working system. Thanks for your thoughts. Alex Owen 2008/7/12 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alex Owen wrote: >> I see that d-i is now using the vesamenu for i386 netboot and has >> dropped the serial pxelinux configuration. >> If I were to produce a clean patch to re-enable production of a serial >> config might it be included for lenny? >> >> I take it the vesamenu config does not work over a serial port? > > I dropped it in the process of splitting up the config files since > supporting it was looking to add a lot of extra complexity. Also since > I'd never considered the use case for it to be compelling -- with or > without the file you still have to manually modify the syslinux > configuration to enable serial console. > > If it can be added back without seriously complicating things, that'd be > fine. I do think that vesamenu is right out for serial console, but have > not actually checked that. > > -- > see shy jo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIeOaId8HHehbQuO8RAqbjAJ9UT38PZxTy817epJ4CE1/1OtTTGwCfXLEE > +cumsP0I2O9tLhhZH6vOtMc= > =+hj6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
