[syslinux] Syslinux vmlinuz name limitation?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jul 21 15:59:42 PDT 2008


Geert Stappers wrote:
>>
>> "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.
> 

Version 3.70 is supposed to support VFAT.

Also, it's a bit unfair to compare the MS-DOS filesystem to CP/M.  The 
CP/M filesystem was much, much worse.  Really.

	-hpa




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