[syslinux] extlinux reports "./extlinux: path /media/disk doesn't match device /dev/sda4"

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Casual Programmer wrote:
>> True, but that's no reason to use /dev/sda4 instead,
>> or am I mistaken ?
>>
> 
> It's certainly going to confuse extlinux, and that's why you get an 
> error message.  And no, it really should print out a better error.
> 

Some more background on this... this is a serious bug in earlier 
versions of extlinux which has since been fixed, although the error 
message is somewhat suboptimal (I just checked in a better error message 
and am pushing int out as 3.61-pre5).

	-hpa