[syslinux] SYSLINUX used by Intel for BIOS updates

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nazo wrote:
> 
> Now that is interesting to hear.  I've always wanted to see a wider
> adoption of syslinux out there.  I thought with the creation of this
> new vesamenu module it would be the thing that finally pushed people
> over into switching to syslinux, but it still has seen a pretty low
> adoption rate.  But, as this demonstrates, isolinux has remained
> exclusively the best choice for CD images at least and nearly everyone
> uses it for that.
> 
> I've always found syslinux/extlinux to be so much better that I
> actually like to replace the default of lilo or grub that all the
> linux distros insist on using with syslinux.  I just find it so much
> easier to work with.  Hopefully this is a sign that adoption may be on
> the rise.  Kind of funny how they are using such an ancient version
> though.
> 

A major roadblock for at least Red Hat/Fedora users is the lack of 
support in grubby.  grubby's codebase is really messy, too.

	-hpa