On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:16:12AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > What are the benefits of using syslinux vs grub on a live system? > > first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot > on a small subset of crappy/old/strange/weird machines where isolinux is > able to boot. this might or might not be true for your use case. > > second, because it has greated flexibility (payloads available for iso, > hdd, pxe etc.), because it has more features (hdt, if64, etc.) and > because its menu system is far more advanced (simple menu, vesamenu, > gfxboot, etc.) > > and third, its codebase is much better and its upstream author much more > reactive. > Ah, there are lots of good reasons, I see. I was wondering in part because I see a lot of how-to's that use grub.
> > I'd like to configure syslinux to give me a menu of kernel choices (like > > grub does on my non-live Lenny system). If anybody out there has a > > config file to share, I'd appreciate it. > > live-helper does by default configure syslinux for vesamenu. > I get a menu of sorts, but it doesn't contain any kernel choices I see the F1-F10 menus for help, special boot parameters, etc. I do not see the labels mentioned in /live/image/syslinux/menu.cfg (such as "live-686" -- how can I correct this? Thanks, from a syslinux newbie. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
