[syslinux] [PATCH] DOC/syslinux.txt: Image clarification

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 05:29:34 PDT 2009


From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>

DOC/syslinux.txt: Image clarification.  Certain image commands are
only available from certain variants.  Including this may help clarify
by grouping the commands into "universal" and "variant-specific" and
mentioning that details are specified in another section with its name
listed.

Signed-off-by: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>

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diff --git a/doc/syslinux.txt b/doc/syslinux.txt
index 4cf89ea..da17f0a 100644
--- a/doc/syslinux.txt
+++ b/doc/syslinux.txt
@@ -223,15 +223,19 @@ LABEL label
     The following commands are available after a LABEL statement:

     LINUX image                        - Linux kernel image (default)
+    COMBOOT image              - COMBOOT program (.com, .cbt)
+    COM32 image                        - COM32 program (.c32)
+    CONFIG image               - New configuration file
+
     BOOT image                 - Bootstrap program (.bs, .bin)
     BSS image                  - BSS image (.bss)
     PXE image                  - PXE Network Bootstrap Program (.0)
     FDIMAGE image              - Floppy disk image (.img)
-    COMBOOT image              - COMBOOT program (.com, .cbt)
-    COM32 image                        - COM32 program (.c32)
-    CONFIG image               - New configuration file
+
        Using one of these keywords instead of KERNEL forces the
-       filetype, regardless of the filename.
+       filetype, regardless of the filename.  Commands in the second
+       group are only available in certain variants.  See "COMBOOT
+       IMAGES AND OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS" below for details.

        CONFIG means restart the boot loader using a different
        configuration file.




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