[syslinux] syslinux files in subdirectories

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:22:21AM -0800, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> I realized this is a 8.3 problem and the directory is
> getting counted as part of the 8 this would be
> slightly messed up using doses concat to filename as
> well
> dos 8.3 is something as follows
> for really_long_filename.txt would be concated as
> really~1.txt or something like that it depends hom
> many files start with really... the number would
> change.
> 
> I moved all the files in my boot directory to the root
> of the drive and edited all the files accordingly and
> it all worked fine.
> 
> So the question is as follows why couldn't syslinux
> open files in directories?

Implementation decision. It's not a bug, it's working as expected:

  SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.

        -hpa

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