[ipxe-devel] menu commands

[Christian Hesse]

Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> on Thu, 2012/03/29 15:44:
> On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 11:11:53 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > I just found the documentation listing the menu commands 'menu', 'item'
> > and 'choose'. My iPXE command line does not know them and scripts give an
> > error as well: "menu: command not found"
> > 
> > What do I need to get support for that?
> 
> You need the latest code; the menu feature was only pushed about an hour
> ago!

Ah, I was way too fast. ;)

> iPXE now has the ability to generate interactive menus directly from iPXE 
> scripts.  For example:
> 
>     menu Please choose an operating system to boot
>     item fedora   Fedora Linux
>     item win7     Windows 7
>     choose os
>     echo Booting ${os}...
> 
> A sample screenshot is attached.  Documentation is currently available at
> 
>   http://ipxe.org/cmd/menu
>   http://ipxe.org/cmd/item
>   http://ipxe.org/cmd/choose
> 
> 
> Many thanks to Robin Smidsrød for coming up with the overall design for
> this feature!

Really great feature, thanks a lot!

/me is going to play with it now... ;)
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Best regards,
Chris
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