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diff --git a/doc/menu.txt b/doc/menu.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aa161bca --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/menu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,476 @@ +There are two menu systems included with SYSLINUX, the advanced menu +system, and the simple menu system. + + ++++ THE ADVANCED MENU SYSTEM +++ + +The advanced menu system, written by Murali Krishnan Ganapathy, is +located in the menu/ subdirectly. It allows the user to create +hierarchial submenus, dynamic options, checkboxes, and just about +anything you want. It requires that the menu is compiled from a +simple C file, see menu/simple.c and menu/complex.c for examples. + +The advanced menu system doesn't support serial console at this time. + +See menu/README for more information. + + ++++ THE SIMPLE MENU SYSTEM +++ + +The simple menu system is a single module located at +com32/modules/vesamenu.c32 (graphical) or com32/modules/menu.c32 (text +mode only). It uses the same configuration file as the regular +SYSLINUX command line, and displays all the LABEL statements. + +To use the menu system, simply make sure [vesa]menu.c32 is in the +appropriate location for your boot medium (the same directory as the +configuration file for SYSLINUX, EXTLINUX and ISOLINUX, and the same +directory as pxelinux.0 for PXELINUX), and put the following options +in your configuration file: + +DEFAULT menu.c32 +PROMPT 0 + + +There are a few menu additions to the command line, all starting with +the keywords MENU or TEXT; like the rest of the SYSLINUX config file +language, it is case insensitive: + +MENU TITLE title + + Give the menu a title. The title is presented at the top of + the menu. + +MENU HIDDEN + + Do not display the actual menu unless the user presses a key. + All that is displayed is a timeout message. + +MENU SEPARATOR + + Insert an empty line in the menu. + +MENU LABEL label + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + Changes the label displayed for a specific entry. This allows + you to have a label that isn't suitable for the command line, + for example: + + # Soft Cap Linux + LABEL softcap + MENU LABEL Soft Cap ^Linux 9.6.36 + KERNEL softcap-9.6.36.bzi + APPEND whatever + + # A very dense operating system + LABEL brick + MENU LABEL ^Windows CE/ME/NT + KERNEL chain.c32 + APPEND hd0 2 + + The ^ symbol in a MENU LABEL statement defines a hotkey. + The hotkey will be highlighted in the menu and will move the + menu cursor immediately to that entry. + + Reusing hotkeys is disallowed, subsequent entries will not be + highlighted, and will not work. + + Keep in mind that the LABELs, not MENU LABELs, must be unique, + or odd things will happen to the command-line. + + +MENU INDENT count + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + Will add "count" spaces in front of the displayed menu entry. + +MENU DISABLE + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + Makes the entry unselectable. This allows you to make a + section in your menu with different options below it. + for example: + + # Entries for network boots + LABEL - + MENU LABEL Network: + MENU DISABLE + + # Soft Cap Linux + LABEL softcap + MENU LABEL Soft Cap ^Linux 9.6.36 + MENU INDENT 1 + KERNEL softcap-9.6.36.bzi + APPEND whatever + + # Dos 6.22 + LABEL dos + MENU LABEL ^Dos 6.22 + MENU INDENT 1 + KERNEL memdisk + APPEND initrd=dos622.imz + + # Separator + MENU SEPARATOR + + # Entries for local boots + LABEL - + MENU LABEL Local: + MENU DISABLE + + # Windows 2000 + LABEL w2k + MENU LABEL ^Windows 2000 + MENU INDENT 1 + KERNEL chain.c32 + APPEND hd0 1 + + # Windows XP + LABEL xp + MENU LABEL Windows ^XP + MENU INDENT 1 + KERNEL chain.c32 + APPEND hd0 2 + +MENU HIDE + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + Suppresses a particular LABEL entry from the menu. + + +MENU DEFAULT + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + Indicates that this entry should be the default. If no + default is specified, use the first one. + + +TEXT HELP +Help text ... +... which can span multiple lines +ENDTEXT + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + + Specifies a help text that should be displayed when a particular + selection is highlighted. + + +MENU PASSWD passwd + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + + Sets a password on this menu entry. "passwd" can be either a + cleartext password, a SHA-1 encrypted password (starting with + $4$), or and MD5 encrypted password (starting with $1$). + + Use the included Perl scripts "sha1pass" or "md5pass" to + encrypt passwords. MD5 passwords are compatible with most + Unix password file utilities; SHA-1 passwords are probably + unique to SYSLINUX. Obviously, if you don't encrypt your + passwords they will not be very secure at all. + + If you are using passwords, you want to make sure you also use + the settings "NOESCAPE 1", "PROMPT 0", and either set + "ALLOWOPTIONS 0" or use a master password (see below.) + + If passwd is an empty string, this menu entry can only be + unlocked with the master password. + + +MENU MASTER PASSWD passwd + + Sets a master password. This password can be used to boot any + menu entry, and is required for the [Tab] and [Esc] keys to + work. + + +MENU BACKGROUND background + + For vesamenu.c32, sets the background image. The background + can either be a color (see MENU COLOR) or the name of an image + file, which should be 640x480 pixels and either in PNG or JPEG + format. + + +MENU BEGIN [tagname] +MENU END + + Begin/end a submenu. The entries between MENU BEGIN and MENU + END form a submenu, which is marked with a > mark on the right + hand of the screen. Submenus inherit the properties of their + parent menus, but can override them, and can thus have their + own backgrounds, master passwords, titles, timeouts, messages + and so forth. + + +MENU GOTO tagname + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + + This label will transfer to the named submenu instead of + booting anything. To transfer to the top-level menu, specify + "menu goto .top". + + +MENU EXIT [tagname] + + (Only valid after a label statement inside MENU BEGIN ... + MENU END) + + Exit to the next higher menu, or, if tagname is specified, to + the named menu. + + +MENU QUIT + + (Only valid after a LABEL statement.) + + This label quits the menu system. + + WARNING: if MENU MASTER PASSWD or ALLOWOPTIONS 0 is set, this + will still allow exiting to the CLI; however, a separate MENU + PASSWD can of course be set for this label. + + +MENU START + + (Only valid inside MENU BEGIN ... MENU END) + + Indicates that the menu system should start at the menu being + defined instead of at the top-level menu. + + +INCLUDE filename [tagname] +MENU INCLUDE filename [tagname] + + Include the contents of the configuration file filename at + this point. + + In the case of MENU INCLUDE, the included data is only seen by + the menu system; the core syslinux code does not parse this + command, so any labels defined in it are unavailable. + + If a tagname is included, the whole file is considered to have + been bracketed with a MENU BEGIN tagname ... MENU END pair, + and will therefore show up as a submenu. + + +MENU AUTOBOOT message + + Replaces the message "Automatic boot in # second{,s}...". The + symbol # is replaced with the number of seconds remaining. + The syntax "{singular,[dual,]plural}" can be used to conjugate + appropriately. + + +MENU TABMSG message + + Replaces the message "Press [Tab] to edit options". + + +MENU NOTABMSG message + + Takes the place of the TABMSG message if option editing is + disabled. Defaults to blank. + + +MENU PASSPROMPT message + + Replaces the message "Password required". + + +MENU COLOR element ansi foreground background shadow + + Sets the color of element "element" to the specified color + sequence: + + screen Rest of the screen + border Border area + title Title bar + unsel Unselected menu item + hotkey Unselected hotkey + sel Selection bar + hotsel Selected hotkey + disabled Disabled menu item + scrollbar Scroll bar + tabmsg Press [Tab] message + cmdmark Command line marker + cmdline Command line + pwdborder Password box border + pwdheader Password box header + pwdentry Password box contents + timeout_msg Timeout message + timeout Timeout counter + help Help text + msgXX Message (F-key) file attribute XX + + ... where XX is two hexadecimal digits (the "plain text" is 07). + + "ansi" is a sequence of semicolon-separated ECMA-48 Set + Graphics Rendition (<ESC>[m) sequences: + + 0 reset all attributes to their defaults + 1 set bold + 4 set underscore (simulated with color on a color display) + 5 set blink + 7 set reverse video + 22 set normal intensity + 24 underline off + 25 blink off + 27 reverse video off + 30 set black foreground + 31 set red foreground + 32 set green foreground + 33 set brown foreground + 34 set blue foreground + 35 set magenta foreground + 36 set cyan foreground + 37 set white foreground + 38 set underscore on, set default foreground color + 39 set underscore off, set default foreground color + 40 set black background + 41 set red background + 42 set green background + 43 set brown background + 44 set blue background + 45 set magenta background + 46 set cyan background + 47 set white background + 49 set default background color + + These are used (a) in text mode, and (b) on the serial + console. + + "foreground" and "background" are color codes in #AARRGGBB + notation, where AA RR GG BB are hexadecimal digits for alpha + (opacity), red, green and blue, respectively. #00000000 + represents fully transparent, and #ffffffff represents opaque + white. + + "shadow" controls the handling of the graphical console text + shadow. Permitted values are "none" (no shadowing), "std" or + "standard" (standard shadowing - foreground pixels are + raised), "all" (both background and foreground raised), and + "rev" or "reverse" (background pixels are raised.) + + If any field is set to "*" or omitted (at the end of the line) + then that field is left unchanged. + + + The current defaults are: + + menu color screen 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std + menu color border 30;44 #40000000 #00000000 std + menu color title 1;36;44 #c00090f0 #00000000 std + menu color unsel 37;44 #90ffffff #00000000 std + menu color hotkey 1;37;44 #ffffffff #00000000 std + menu color sel 7;37;40 #e0000000 #20ff8000 all + menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #e0400000 #20ff8000 all + menu color disabled 1;30;44 #60cccccc #00000000 std + menu color scrollbar 30;44 #40000000 #00000000 std + menu color tabmsg 31;40 #90ffff00 #00000000 std + menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #c000ffff #00000000 std + menu color cmdline 37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std + menu color pwdborder 30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff std + menu color pwdheader 31;47 #80ff8080 #20ffffff std + menu color pwdentry 30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff std + menu color timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std + menu color timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std + menu color help 37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std + menu color msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 std + + +MENU MSGCOLOR fg_filter bg_filter shadow + + Sets *all* the msgXX colors to a color scheme derived from the + fg_filter and bg_filter values. Background color zero is + always treated as transparent. The default corresponds to: + + menu msgcolor #90ffffff #80ffffff std + + This directive should come before any directive that + customizes individual msgXX colors. + + +MENU WIDTH 80 +MENU MARGIN 10 +MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3 +MENU ROWS 12 +MENU TABMSGROW 18 +MENU CMDLINEROW 18 +MENU ENDROW -1 +MENU PASSWORDROW 11 +MENU TIMEOUTROW 20 +MENU HELPMSGROW 22 +MENU HELPMSGENDROW -1 +MENU HIDDENROW -2 +MENU HSHIFT 0 +MENU VSHIFT 0 + + These options control the layout of the menu on the screen. + The values above are the defaults. + + A negative value is relative to the calculated length of the + screen (25 for text mode, 28 for VESA graphics mode.) + + +F1 textfile background +... +F12 textfile background + + Displays full-screen help (also available at the command line.) + The same control code sequences as in the command line + interface are supported, although some are ignored. + + Additionally, a second argument allows a different background + image (see MENU BACKGROUND for supported formats) to be displayed. + + +The menu system honours the TIMEOUT command; if TIMEOUT is specified +it will execute the ONTIMEOUT command if one exists, otherwise it will +pick the default menu option. + +Normally, the user can press [Tab] to edit the menu entry, and [Esc] +to return to the SYSLINUX command line. However, if the configuration +file specifies ALLOWOPTIONS 0, these keys will be disabled, and if +MENU MASTER PASSWD is set, they require the master password. + +The simple menu system supports serial console, using the normal +SERIAL directive. However, it can be quite slow over a slow serial +link; you probably want to set your baudrate to 38400 or higher if +possible. It requires a Linux/VT220/ANSI-compatible terminal on the +other end. + + + +++ USING AN ALTERNATE CONFIGURATION FILE +++ + + +It is also possible to load a secondary configuration file, to get to +another menu. To do that, invoke menu.c32 with the name of the +secondary configuration file. + +LABEL othermenu + MENU LABEL Another Menu + KERNEL menu.c32 + APPEND othermenu.conf + +If you specify more than one file, they will all be read, in the order +specified. The dummy filename ~ (tilde) is replaced with the filename +of the main configuration file. + +# The file graphics.conf contains common color and layout commands for +# all menus. +LABEL othermenu + MENU LABEL Another Menu + KERNEL vesamenu.c32 + APPEND graphics.conf othermenu.conf + +# Return to the main menu +LABEL mainmenu + MENU LABEL Return to Main Menu + KERNEL vesamenu.c32 + APPEND graphics.conf ~ + +See also the MENU INCLUDE directive above. |