[syslinux] Syslinux search for config file
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 12 10:06:36 PST 2012
On 08/29/2012 04:42 AM, Tomas M wrote:
>
> There is -d option to install syslinux to any directory (if you
> remember, I sponsored it few years ago), but still the config file
> needs to be in /boot/syslinux/ for example. This way, the default
> behavior (backward compatibility) would be preserved, because it would
> still look to these hardcoded directories first, but if the config
> file is not found inthere, it would try all other directories and all
> other subdirectories (say, to recursion level 2).
>
As of the current versions of Syslinux, the install directory is always
searched.
Doing a global search of the filesystem is crazy.
-hpa
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