[syslinux] Pxelinux image filename oddity?

[Simen Timian Thoresen]

Hello Josef. Thank you for confirming this for me.

I now have my setup working perfectly, so I'm very happy with both 
syslinux/pxelinux and RH kickstart.

Yours,
-S

> Hi,
> 
> "Simen Thoresen" <simentt at dolphinics.no> schrieb am 21.01.03 00:18:00:
> > Right now I have it working, but the documentation found elsewhere on the web
> > has confused me.
> > 
> > Specifically, having a dot ('.') in the filename of the image seems to crash
> > or reboot my machine.
> [..]
> > ...while the following (kernel properly renamed, of course) results in either
> > a crash or a reboot, depending on how the kernel was built [root at leire linux]#
> > cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/C0A80165 label linux
> >         kernel boot.0
> 
> Please avoid the '.0' ending with syslinux (and pxelinux) if booting a linux
> kernel. The same applies to '.bin', '.iso', '.bss', (fill in missing pieces here
> ...). See the syslinux and isolinux documentation for all the endings. These
> files are interpreted in a special way by sys/pxe/isolinux (boot sectors, iso
> images, ...), and will do something funny with files not being what the filename
> tells it to be.
> 
> Since this really gets a FAQ: HPA, would you be so kind to include this at the
> top of the sys/pxe/isolinux documentation?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Josef
> 
> 
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