[syslinux] Syslinux vmlinuz name limitation?

[Geert Stappers]

Op 21-07-2008 om 05:18 schreef Bogdan Radulescu:
> On Mon, 7/21/08, Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> wrote:
> > Op 20-07-2008 om 23:41 schreef Bogdan Radulescu:
   <snip/>
> > > I don't know if anyone else experienced the problems I have but
> > > I thought that you should know about it. 
> > > If you need additional info I'd be glad to supply it.
> > 
> > Please provide your syslinux conf file.
> 
> Here is my config:
> 
> PROMPT 0
> TIMEOUT 100
> DEFAULT xconf
> 
> LABEL xconf
> KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-nx08
> APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd-nx08.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw
> 
> LABEL linux
> KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw
> 
> 
> "xconf" doesn't work and "linux" works just fine.


The working has indeed 8.3 filenames, the none working doesn't.
It is a limitation of the MS-DOS (CP/M) filesystem.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

P.S.
Thanks for replying below the text.