[syslinux] colon in syslinux.cfg leads to "Unknown keyword"

[bpatsch at gmx.net]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:03:15AM -0500, Nazo wrote:
> On 9/10/05, Bernhard Patsch <bpatsch at gmx.net> wrote:
> > -------- syslinux.cfg faulty  --------
[...]
> > label usbinst
> >   kernel bzImage
> >   append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount
> >   ramdisk_size=16384
> > vmalloc=1
> > 28M ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg 
> >
>
> Perhaps it's just the e-mail, but, it looks to me like the part of the
> append line with the colon has gotten onto a new line by itself
> instead of being word-wrapped, starting with the 28M part.  Have you
> made certain it is all actually one line?

There's just a line break in the email - the actual syslinux.cfg
contains the whole append string in one line.
Due to lazyness when testing the append lines I've also tried a short
append line (append ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg) getting the same error.

bye,
Benny