[ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Feb 1 02:01:19 UTC 2013


On Thursday 31 Jan 2013 19:34:10 Warren Turkal wrote:
> Ok, here's a question about that config. I undef PXE_MENU in the config,
> but I still get menus in iPXE. However, if I let it remain defined (i.e.
> comment out the #undef), the binary's size increases. What is undefing
> PXE_MENU actually disabling?

PXE_MENU controls support for menus as per the PXE specification.  Almost 
nobody uses these, but they are part of the spec.

iPXE's menus, which are much more sophisticated than plain old PXE menus, are 
controlled by MENU_CMD in config/general.h.

Michael



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