[syslinux] Re: pxelinux kernel fails vaio c1mzx

[H. Peter Anvin]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, I do not think this is only a documentation
> problem.  A .bin suffix has a long history of meaning "just a bunch of
> bytes", the historic equivalent of application/octet-stream.  To
> interpret it differently than no suffix is a mistake, in my opinion,
> because it will confuse people.
>
> Could you use a different suffix for CD boot sectors?  Failing that,
> is there any validation you could do on .bin files?  That is, could
> you look for some signature for CD boot sectors (or Linux kernels)?
> 

No, no, and no :(

You're absolutely right it's a mistake.  Unfortunately it was Micro$oft
that made it, not I.  The use of the .bin extension is unfortunately
necessary for NTLDR compatibility :( :( :(

	-hpa