[syslinux] Syslinux vmlinuz name limitation?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jul 21 16:00:39 PDT 2008


Luciano Rocha wrote:
> 
> Maybe it has changed recently, but syslinux didn't support long file
> names on DOS/Windows filesystems, so the vmlinuz-nx08 and initrd-nx08.gz
> don't exist as far as it's concerned.
> 

It did - version 3.70.  However, it's entirely possible there are bugs 
in that code (it being rather new after all), so I'd like to track this 
down.

	-hpa




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