[ipxe-devel] Transform syslinux menu.c32/menu.cfg to ipxe menu

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Hello Robin,

On Sep 7, 2012, at 4:08 AM, "Robin Smidsrød" <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:

> On 07.09.2012 09:26, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>> I would like to transform the following menu.c32 menu.cfg into the new
>> ipxe menu syppnopsis, but I don't really get how.
>>
>> I saw http://ipxe.org/cmd/menu and understood so much that I can create
>> menu entries with 'menu' followed by 'item' but what I don't understand
>> is how do I tell ipxe to execute a section when a user selected item.
>
> Sometimes examples work better than countless pages of documentation.

I'd say you're spot on with that assessment, at least in my case ;)

> Hopefully this example, https://gist.github.com/2234639, will get you
> started on how to do lots of different things with the native iPXE menu
> feature.
>
> -- Robin
> [snip]

I went to bookmark that link and eyeball it a little... I seem to
recall seeing a sample menu before, not sure if this was it.... The
page wouldn't load.  Github did, however, show me a cute picture of a
unicorn :P

Their status page says they're up, and I'll try again later, but do I
have the correct link there?  Regardless, I thought I'd also suggest
adding a link to your samples under the "See also" section on the menu
doc page ( http://ipxe.org/cmd/menu ), perhaps even to all of them.
Sample code is always helpful to beginners!

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky