[syslinux] Syslinux search for config file

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/12/2012 10:20 AM, Tomas M wrote:
> Thanks, I already found answer to that. It just didn't work for me due
> to the problem with backslashes versus forwardslashes, but I don't
> care any longer since I'm now using forward slashes in the directory
> argument which works fine on Windows as well.
> 
> For ISOLINUX, this is not the case, it never searches any custom
> directory. Using recursive search would help here trendemously.
> Without it, the CD would not boot at all, so using search (up to
> recursion level 2 for example) may be very safe and simple solution
> how to enable users to put syslinux.cfg to a nonstandard directory on
> CD. In the meantime, I'm patching and recompiling isolinux.bin to add
> my own directory path where to search ...
> 

Recursive search is a nonstarter, especially on a slow medium like a CD.
 The sanest option is probably to provide a patching tool like we have
for pxelinux.

	-hpa