updating documentation

4 files changed, 35 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/src/syslinux/f2.txt b/doc/overview.md
index f5cba8f..a603f98 100644
--- a/src/syslinux/f2.txt
+++ b/doc/overview.md
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-
-                            Help Table of Contents
+                      IP Engineering Rescue Disk Overview
 
 This is a multi Linux distro rescue Disk.  This image contains base files to
 boot into various utilities and installers. Unless booted from a USB device,
 this image is read-only.  To learn more, press one of the function keys
-listed below to view a topic:
+listed below to view a topic or navigate using the documentation menu:
 
-        <F2> - Table of Contents
-        <F3> - Serial Console
-        <F4> - Sylinux CLI
+        <F1> - Overview
+        <F2> - Serial Console
 
diff --git a/doc/serial-console.md b/doc/serial-console.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6df5aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/serial-console.md
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+                    IP Engineering Rescue Disk Serial Cosole
+
+Most boot images supported by IPERD contain support for serial consoles. In
+most cases the serial console can be enabled by navigating to the desired image,
+pressing the [TAB] key to edit the boot parameters, and appending the following:
+
+        console=<device>,<speed>
+
+The following are common devices and their speeds:
+
+        console=tty0          - VGA console
+        console=ttyS0         - com1 at 9600 baud
+        console=ttyS1,57600   - com2 at 57,600 baud (Dell iDRAC/IPMI)
+        console=ttyS2,115200  - com2 at 115,200 baud (SuperMicro IPMI)
+
+Multiple consoles may be specified. The last console specified will be used for
+/dev/console (i.e. userspace). The following is an example of two consoles:
+
+        console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200
+
+The filw 'admin-guide/serial-console.rst' in the Linux kernel documentation
+contains more detailed information.
+
diff --git a/src/syslinux/Makefile.syslinux b/src/syslinux/Makefile.syslinux
index 076eec3..352bc92 100644
--- a/src/syslinux/Makefile.syslinux
+++ b/src/syslinux/Makefile.syslinux
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ syslinux/iperd.dep: tmp/src/syslinux-$(SYSLINUX_VERSION)/.iperd-extracted
         rsync -ra "$(PWD)/tmp/syslinux/usr/share/syslinux/" syslinux
         rsync -ra "$(PWD)/tmp/syslinux/usr/bin/"            syslinux/bin
         rsync -ra "$(PWD)/tmp/syslinux/sbin/"               syslinux/sbin
-        cp $(SYSLINDIR)/f1.txt                              syslinux/
-        cp $(SYSLINDIR)/f2.txt                              syslinux/
         cp /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids                        syslinux/
         cp /lib/modules/$$(uname -r)/modules.alias          syslinux/modules.als
         cp syslinux/isolinux.bin                            syslinux/isolinux.bin.mod
diff --git a/src/syslinux/common.cfg b/src/syslinux/common.cfg
index 3d6f7e1..8f3b264 100644
--- a/src/syslinux/common.cfg
+++ b/src/syslinux/common.cfg
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ serial 0 9600
 prompt 1
 UI menu.c32
 
+# define help keys
+F1 /doc/overview.md
+F2 /doc/serial-console.md
 
-#display /menu.txt
-F1 /syslinux/f1.txt
-F2 /syslinux/f2.txt
-
-MENU TITLE IP Engineering Rescue Disk (@IPERD_VERSION@) [@DATE@] {@SYSLINUX_FLAVOR@}
+MENU TITLE IP Engineering Rescue Disk (@IPERD_VERSION@) [@DATE@]
 MENU TABMSG Press [TAB] to edit options, [F2] for help, or [ESC] for CLI.
 MENU ROWS 13
 #MENU TIMEOUTROW 22
@@ -48,6 +47,10 @@ menu color help		37;40      #c0ffffff #00000000 std
 menu color msg07        37;40      #90ffffff #00000000 std
 
 MENU BEGIN
+MENU LABEL ^Documentation (@SYSLINUX_FLAVOR@)
+MENU END
+
+MENU BEGIN
 MENU LABEL ^Syslinux Modules
 
 label cli