[syslinux] Location and name of configuration files

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun May 24 12:33:35 PDT 2009


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Kim Mik wrote:
>> It would also be nice, that syslinux and derivates, will look for a config file at the directory where syslinux is installed.
>>
>> syslinux -d /some/directory/ /dev/sda1
>>
>> will try to find /some/directory/syslinux.cfg first.
>>
> 
> This is surprisingly difficult given the structure of (V)FAT.
> 

Specifically, it's a FAT-vs-VFAT issue; given the current setup, though,
I think we have all the information we need to do it right, but I'd have
to double-check.

	-hpa

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