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Ryan Schroeder wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I'm working on setting up an installer. Basically, I only want to
> automatically boot to the CD when no hard drive partitions exist.
> Otherwise, I want to display a prompt with a timeout to boot to the CD. Is
> this possible with the default ISOLINUX?
>

Yes, although you probably have to write a custom module to do it.

-hpa

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Wouldn't you also want to build a function in to hold a key or "Press Any Key to start from CD...." too?

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-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces@zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces@zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:05 PM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Auto boot with Isolinux if no partitions

Ryan Schroeder wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I'm working on setting up an installer. Basically, I only want to
> automatically boot to the CD when no hard drive partitions exist.
> Otherwise, I want to display a prompt with a timeout to boot to the CD. Is
> this possible with the default ISOLINUX?
>

Yes, although you probably have to write a custom module to do it.

-hpa

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