The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to display
the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected:
"Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to
this menu"
This patch also fix another bug (previously, if someone pressed [tab]
then edit a command line longer than one line, then the prompt was
weird)
Franklin
Index: menu.cfg
===================================================================
--- menu.cfg (revision 56664)
+++ menu.cfg (working copy)
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
label mainmenu
menu label ^Back..
menu exit
+ text help
+ Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this menu.
+ endtext
+
+
include ${SYSDIR}stdmenu.cfg
include ${SYSDIR}adtext.cfg
include ${SYSDIR}adamdtext.cfg
@@ -21,3 +26,7 @@
label help
menu label ^Help
config ${SYSDIR}prompt.cfg
+ text help
+ Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this menu.
+ endtext
+
Index: stdmenu.cfg
===================================================================
--- stdmenu.cfg (revision 56664)
+++ stdmenu.cfg (working copy)
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@
menu color sel * #ffffffff #76a1d0ff *
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ffffffff #76a1d0ff *
menu color tabmsg * #ffffffff #00000000 *
+menu color help 37;40 #ffdddd00 #00000000 none
menu vshift 11
menu rows 10
-menu tabmsgrow 16
-menu timeoutrow 17
+menu tabmsgrow 18
+menu timeoutrow 16
menu tabmsg Press ENTER to boot or TAB to edit a menu entry
+
+menu helpmsgrow 15
+
+#The command line must be at least one line from the bottom.
+menu cmdlinerow 16
