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menu.c32 from iPXE
2012-06-22, 08:37
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RE: menu.c32 from iPXE
Not wanting to be impolite (it's my first post on this forum after all :-) ) but isn't the decision to disable comboot support just a tiny little bit rude towards the ~99.98% of livecd / pxelinux / whatever configs out there?
Not to mention that the iPXE menu system doesn't support graphics, doesn't support hiding menu items, asking for paswords ... ... ...

Another thing, hiding such an important configuration setting in a header file isn't exactly 21'st century either. For such a complex, delicate thing as a boot rom I would have expected at least a Kconfig style approach to configuration. Besides forcing the developers to spend at least a little time on documenting the settings (I had to head over to the contrib/rom-o-matic dir to find out what some of the settings not documented in the wiki do), '.config' files are much easier to backup, compare and share.

Anyway, after digging around for hours in the innards of the build system, my guess is that one can enable comboot support without touching any source files by casting this hideous spell

`$ make CFLAGS_config="-DIMAGE_COMBOOT=on" <bin/whatever>`

Just my € 0,05
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menu.c32 from iPXE - Alet - 2012-04-30, 15:26
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - ack006 - 2012-06-22 08:37
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - prividen - 2018-05-24, 23:07
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - NiKiZe - 2018-05-25, 07:02
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - prividen - 2018-05-25, 15:58
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - prividen - 2018-05-25, 23:37
RE: menu.c32 from iPXE - prividen - 2018-05-27, 18:02



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