[syslinux] Localboot option in syslinux and extlinux

[Geert Stappers]

Op 14-11-2006 om 21:25 schreef n schembr:
>  
> First, my problems are on the edge of accepted use of most products.
> I'm working in an aria that the average user will never see. 
> Who in there right mind is going to boot off of a cdrom to a cf flash
> and then back to the hard drive :) 
> The people working on this project have a lot of vision. 
> 
> As for the last part of my email. After you understand what is going on,
> it is clear syslinux, ntloader...ect, all fall into this section;
> and 99% of all users will use it in just this way.
> I like the "Lable cement" :) 
> 
> (from extlinux web page, http://syslinux.zytor.com/extlinux.php)
> # Windows CE/ME/NT, a very dense operating system.
> # Second partition (2) on the first hard disk (hd0);
> # Linux would *typically* call this /dev/hda2 or /dev/sda2.
> LABEL cement
>     KERNEL chain.c32
>     APPEND hd0 2
> 
> isolinux uses the command localboot 0x80 to boot from the first hard drive. 
> syslinux returns an error.  It might be helpful if syslinux returned an error  
> 'localboot not supported use "KERNEL chain.c32"'


isolinux and syslinux are different programms.
Both are bootloaders, both are from the same programmer,
but they remain different.


If I understand the proposal, then it does say:

 Programm foo has an option called X. In programm baz is the option X
 not supported, but it has Y, which does the same as X in foo.
 When an user wants X in baz, he should be hinted that he should
 use Y.


The proposed request seems reasonable, but it isn't.

When baz encounters an unknown option is the only right
thing to do is to tell (in an errormessage) that it is
an unknown option.


Cheers
Geert Stappers