[syslinux] Location and name of configuration files

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andrew Yeomans wrote:
> 
> Would it not be more user-friendly and less error-prone if isolinux could
> search both sets of directories, namely:-
> 
> /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
> /isolinux/isolinux.cfg
> /isolinux.cfg
> /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
> /syslinux/syslinux.cfg
> /syslinux.cfg
> 
> And similarly syslinux could do the same but with the syslinux.cfg files
> first. That would make it possible to have a single .iso file that was easy
> to copy across to a USB drive, without manually changing it. And would also
> support different config files in the same .iso image for syslinux and
> isolinux, if there was a good reason to have them different.
> 
> I've just spotted that isohybrid also helps towards the aim of a single
> image for CD and USB; however a dd-able image is not so easy to use if you
> don't want to overwrite existing data. So supporting additional locations
> and names would still be useful.
> 

Yes, I'm seriously thinking that having all derivatives fall back to
syslinux.cfg is the right thing to do.  It won't happen for 3.81 (it's
way too late to make that change), but expect to see it in a future release.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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