[ipxe-devel] Command line disabled when embedding a script

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 26 May 2011 16:19:04 Sven Dreyer wrote:
> I asked myself whether this could be configurable via a DHCP option, like:
> 
> option ipxe.no-prompt code XXX = unsigned integer 8;
> 
> For specific hosts, I then could set:
> 
> option ipxe.no-prompt 1;
> 
> in the host's section of my dhcpd.conf.
> 
> This way I could avoid to embed a script into iPXE.

Unfortunately this violates causality.  The Ctrl-B prompt is displayed before 
the DHCP request is made.

(If you use the "prompt" command in an embedded script, you could choose to 
display it only after the DHCP request, if you wanted.)

Michael