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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> | 2010-06-25 00:15:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> | 2010-06-25 00:15:54 +0200 |
| commit | e2f3998297a32e761c83741ab55bc9612a8e9c99 (patch) | |
| tree | a27ac7f6d05ebfa82dde064e524ae403bb69e03e /man | |
| parent | 647a3f96a779d15773dd766c566dffa2c905d2e2 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-e2f3998297a32e761c83741ab55bc9612a8e9c99.tar.gz | |
Updating description in syslinux manpage wrt/ default entries as of syslinux >= 3.85.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/syslinux.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/syslinux.1 b/man/syslinux.1 index 70d44d1b..1729ddd4 100644 --- a/man/syslinux.1 +++ b/man/syslinux.1 @@ -76,10 +76,16 @@ with a hash mark (#) are ignored. Sets the default command line. If \fBsyslinux\fP boots automatically, it will act just as if the entries after "default" had been typed in at the "boot:" prompt. .IP -If no configuration file is present, or no "default" entry is present in the -configuration file, the default is "linux auto". +If no DEFAULT or UI statement is found, or the configuration file is missing +entirely, \s-1SYSLINUX\s+1 drops to the boot: prompt with an error message (if +NOESCAPE is set, it stops with a "boot failed" message; this is also the case +for PXELINUX if the configuration file is not found.) .TP -NOTE: Earlier versions of \s-1SYSLINUX\s+1 used to automatically +NOTE: Until \s-1SYSLINUX\s+1 3.85, if no configuration file is present, or no +"default" entry is present in the configuration file, the default is +"linux auto". +.TP +Even earlier versions of \s-1SYSLINUX\s+1 used to automatically append the string "auto" to whatever the user specified using the DEFAULT command. As of version 1.54, this is no longer true, as it caused problems when using a shell as a substitute |