[syslinux] syslinux installation issues

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/12/2009 03:36 PM, Shao Miller wrote:
> Bernd Blaauw wrote:
>>
>> Not sure a DOS version check is enough though, FreeDOS has FAT32 support
>> optionally (but by default) compiled in, but still allows to set
>> DOS-compatible version to different values than 7.10
>> (fat32 supporting kernels set it to 7.10, all others to 6.22 or 5.00 if
>> I remember correctly).
>>
> I believe that H. Peter addresses this with
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=e5a014f403aabb9400f309a0bef08288d6421107
> 

Correct, and that's exactly the reason to avoid the DOS version check.

	-hpa

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