[syslinux] not a bug anymore?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Feb 28 04:40:48 PST 2007


Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> from the syslinux page http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#bugs:
> 
>     SYSLINUX will not work (and will refuse to install) on filesystems
>     with a cluster size of more than 16K (typically means a filesystem
>     of more than 1 GB.)
> 
> This doesn't seem to apply anymore, at least I used version 3
> successfully on a 2 GB FAT16 filesystem with 32K clusters.

Yes, the webpages are a bit out of date.

Unfortunately I just don't seem to be able to carve out enough time to 
move everything over to the Wiki, and noone else seems to, either :(

	-hpa




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