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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-04 22:02:09 -0800 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-04 22:02:09 -0800 |
commit | e7b7832a4856ff509487650a61151e4fabad9f70 (patch) | |
tree | 2173b6ceacdc5752cf8c4880c85042427c0bffde /doc | |
parent | 88f16f147237ab25ffd83ba67a8ccfc963fa009d (diff) | |
parent | 3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8 (diff) | |
download | syslinux-e7b7832a4856ff509487650a61151e4fabad9f70.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'master' into fsc
Resolved Conflicts:
core/pxelinux.asm
Note: this PXELINUX currently seems to hang with interrupts on trying
to fetch the configuration file -- further debugging will be required.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/memdisk.txt | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/menu.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt index 254cb7c9..c7244abc 100644 --- a/doc/memdisk.txt +++ b/doc/memdisk.txt @@ -132,15 +132,22 @@ g) The following option can be used to set the real-mode stack size. stack=size Set the stack to "size" bytes +h) Some systems without a floppy drive have been known to have + problems with floppy images. To avoid that those problems, first + of all make sure you don't have a floppy drive configured on the + BIOS screen. If there is no option to configure that, or that + doesn't work, you can use the option: + + nopass Hide all real drives of the same type (floppy or hard disk) + Some interesting things to note: If you're using MEMDISK to boot DOS from a CD-ROM (using ISOLINUX), you might find the generic El Torito CD-ROM driver by Gary Tong and -Bart Lagerweij useful: - - http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ - +Bart Lagerweij useful. It is now included with the Syslinux +distribution, in the dosutil directory. See the file +dosutil/eltorito.txt for more information. Similarly, if you're booting DOS over the network using PXELINUX, you can use the "keeppxe" option and use the generic PXE (UNDI) NDIS diff --git a/doc/menu.txt b/doc/menu.txt index e1601249..c912c1df 100644 --- a/doc/menu.txt +++ b/doc/menu.txt @@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ MENU HIDDEN All that is displayed is a timeout message. +MENU CLEAR + + Clear the screen when exiting the menu, instead of leaving the + menu displayed. For vesamenu, this means the graphical + background is still displayed without the menu itself for as + long as the screen remains in graphics mode. + + MENU SHIFTKEY Exit the menu system immediately unless either the Shift or Alt |