[syslinux] Syslinux vmlinuz name limitation should be gone

[Geert Stappers]

Op 21-07-2008 om 16:00 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
> 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.

This thread started with:
| I'm using syslinux-3.70 and apparently it doesn't allow me to use
| different names for vmlinuz and initrd.gz. 


Bogdan Radulescu, this means that what you want should be possible.
However there might a software error ( "bug" ) in the syslinux source.
Please help with fixing it.


Cheers
Geert Stappers